John Lautner hits the silver screen

2015-12-30T17:34:00-05:00

The 1990 documentary "The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner" screens in Beverly Hills on January 2, and it includes not only dramatic images of the buildings, but also interviews and insights from the builders, owners, and the architect himself.

Like the fine wine of architecture, the work of John Lautner only gets better with age. Whether experienced in exhibition form (the Hammer Museum's 2008 show was a marvelous introduction for those unfamiliar with his canon) to documentary film, Lautner's fearless yet elegant exploration of space and material continues to captivate decades after his death in 1994. What better way to start off 2016?

Architecture in fashion design

2015-08-20T17:01:00-04:00

Although fashion magnate Tom Ford does not make much of the fact that he studied architecture at Parsons The New School for Design, that early influence can still be felt in his body of work, as it can with Daniel DuGoff, an architectural alum of Washington University in St. Louis turned fashionista who has recently been attracting press attention for his technically exquisite yet stylish clothing line DDUGOFF. However, the industry has also been venturing into other traditionally architectural realms. In May, the Shining 3D Fashion Show Design Contest invited participants to submit 3D printed clothing options:

The aesthetic structural sensibility of fashion, while obviously existing in a different material realm, shares much with the most visually engaging and relevant architecture.

This structural appreciation extends beyond clothing into film. When Tom Ford directed the adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's "A Single Man," he had the principal character live in John Lautner's Schaf...

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John Lautner hits the silver screen

Architecture in fashion design