As an architect you really got down to what I want to know about a house. Your careful deconstruction showed just how construction, stretched to the limit (and sagging in a few places!) was an integral component of the design of these houses, not an afterthought. Absolutely excellent video.
Thank you very much, for your admiration. Yes, its my aim to make videos as complete as possible about each house, so i'm very happy to hear that I'have succeeded in doing that. Your message stimulates me to go on. I will be uploading more videos about F.L Wright in the future, I already have made several videos about John Lautner.
The channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now th-cam.com/video/2CjANCkhfHI/w-d-xo.html Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in the next months .
as a mechanical engineering technologist (who is looking at my own build on steep slope property) these videos are excellent reviews of the best built houses I have seen on some of the most complex terrain. Case study and all similar projects are so inspiring. Your commentary and narration is perfect.
This house has always haunted me with it's structural design, and yet so simple layout. It's a testament to FLW's brilliance in every possible circumstance. It's really difficult to imagine anyone else pulling something like this off, and doing it so well. That's what makes him the boss, in my opinion of course. And Lautner obviously owes much to him.
Once again, Jop, you have created an enthralling tour of another masterwork. Thank you for your great care and attention to the structural and artistic details as well as creating the feeling of actually walking through each building. It is always such a treat to see a new video from you. Thank you for bringing back memories of Hollywood, where I lived for 8 years until recently. Indeed, I often walked by the Freeman House. Please keep 'em coming!
Thank you that you appriciate my videos so much, i really like that you say "that you feel like walking through each house", because thats my purpose with these videos. I love to make new videos so they keep on coming
Nice guided tour by marking inside to outside window openings gives you a better understanding of the outside form and it’s relation to the interior function. thank you!
You're welcome! Sometimes its difficult to understand the layout of a house, so therefore I did that: to give people a complete overview of the houses.
@@milootje007 i recently uploaded a video about the Harvey House by Lautner, but I had to took it down, because there was a spelling mistake in it . You responed to that video with a link towards a house by Neutra, but because I replaced the video your answer was also removed. Could you please place that link again? Thanks!
If you're into Wright, the Sturges house gives you shivers. After decades of admiration, I have to say I have mixed feelings about having the street facing facade be "blank". Also, the minimal size of early usonians without a basement forces "discipline" on the inhabitants. But if you're a fan, these are quibbles. It is interesting to fantasize how FLW would have created an addition to Sturges. Wright created many later additions on Usonians.
Yes, most Usonians are not very practical to live in but very beautiful. I think that if Wright would designed an addition it would be a separate structure or otherwise an enclosement of the carport into a guest house. The house itself is estheticly perfect so any addition would ruin it.
Thank you! I'm very honoured that you like my videos so much. This stimulates me to make more films about the houses by Wright and Lautner. I want to make my videos as informative as possible, so if you say that you learned more than books about F.L Wright, than I know that i've succeeded.
Thannk you, that you liked the video. I want to make the description of the houses as complete as possible. The posiyive response I get stimulates me to go on.
the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now th-cam.com/video/2CjANCkhfHI/w-d-xo.html Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in the next months .
This is the "North by Northwest" movie house !!! I LOOOOOOVE THIS HOUSE !!! This the most glamourous house in the world ! Eva Marie Saint and Clark Gable are about to kiss each other on the terrace...
The Sturges House is a longtime favorite of the Usonian houses, and to learn about the connection between Wright, John Lautner and this house has literally added a new dimension to my life. Thanks for posting .
Thank you, It fills me with joy that you like the videos so much! I make these videos to show the people how great John Lautner and F.L Wright were, to preserve their legacy. I found that there was not enough iformation on the internet about there houses.
great to hear that you liked the video so much. I want to translate the houses so complete as possible. More videos about the houses by Wright will be uploaded in the future, but first I focus on all the houses by Lautner.
the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now th-cam.com/video/2CjANCkhfHI/w-d-xo.html Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in a few months .
Great to hear that you admire my videos so much. Next week I will upload a new video about John Lautner's Harvey House. Another videos about Pearlman Mountain Cabin and Concannon house will come up later. So stay tuned! :).
You're welcome! Thanks for appriciating my videos. I want to make complete overviews of all John Lautner designs and most FLLW designs. I love their work, check out also the other videos about their houses.
Thank you for your admiration. I want to make the tours as complete as possible and the videos as good as can be. More videos will come up about all houses by Lautner and Wright.
The projected cost of $220,000 may be the adjusted for inflation cost, but materials and labor costs have not followed that linear line. The cost of building the house would be 3x-4x-that today, more in the 700k-1million range.
Yes youre right. It's way more expensive nowadays, unfortunately for the art of architecture but more fair towards the blue collar workers who all make this magnificent houses possible.
I must say that your video of the Sturges house (and your other videos) to me rises above all others the way Frank Lloyd Wright rises above all other architects. I have my favorites in other fields of art such as music, writing, movies, etc., but nothing for me is as breathtaking as the house that does not look like one. Who in the architectural world, or in any similar setting, would accept the challenge of a letter of request for a house plan on a lot that had to be priced at $10 before anyone would buy it? On that lot there is now a house far more captivating to me than any other. There are many great things about the house, but I love especially that from the street, you cannot see any windows or doors. So much for the house. I think you must be the ultimate architectural video explainer. When you finish, is there anything left to be explained?
Thank you for your beautiful comment! It's really heartwarming to read such positive reactions and it stimulates me to make more videos. Like an architect I'm really passionate about making these videos, constructing them with photos and drawings. This is also one of my favorites, because you can't see any windows and with its unusual shape it looks like a sculpture. Yesterday I just uploaded a new video about the Ernest Lautner house in Florida. Which is also a great Wright like sculptural design. Wright and Lautner are my favorite architects, but I also love Neutra in the 2nd place. Good luck and till the next video!
You can see the influence on Lautner with the terrace that connects the bedrooms. Much like in the Schwimmer house. If you ever run out of ideas, perhaps you can make a video which contains Lautner architecture which was influenced by Wright. Of course other architects can be compared as well. Thanks for sharing your thorough productions.
Thank you, nice that you like the videos. If I have done all the videos about Lautner, Wright and Neutra homes, I'm gonna make a video about there influences. In many videos I already try to refer about the influences of Wrigth on the works by Lautner. There are many similarities yet differences between Wright and Lautner. You must also check the video about the Wolff House,which is very influenced by Wright.
I believe this house was long owned by the actor that played Jimmie Olsen on the original Superman TV series. The nuts and bolts explanation was just lovely.
Yes, you're right Jack Larson who played Jimmy Olsen lived in this house for more thant three decades together with his partner film director James Bridges. Thanks that you liked the video so much!
Yes the VanDamme house has the most similarities with the Sturges House, so its based mostly on that house, but there is also a strong Fallingwater influence in it. Also some Taliesin East influences. A combination of multiple Wright designs. A great set piece in a fantastic movie anyway.
Actually Hitchcock wanted an FLW style house so much he actually contacted Frank Lloyd to do it for him for the film. Though Hitchcock balked at "The usual ten percent" fee that FLW was asking for when it became obbious FLW wanted ten percent of the production cost of the entire film and not the cost of making the set design.
As a resident of Los Angeles, a FLW fan, and a licensed building contractor,I have to say that this vid shows the man at his essence, both good and bad. Mr. Cornelis gives us the very good; his picture selection shows the bad. We can see the undersized passageways, kitchen and bath. FLW disliked these spaces as they detracted from the design. The hallway is especially narrow. This house is unusual in that the bathroom and kitchen are on the same floor as the living area. However, there is no basement per se to tuck them in as he did in his more sumptuous signature houses. The architect was famous for the bad roofs on his structures and how difficult it would be to repair them. On the exterior walls, especially around the windows, there is evidence of major and long-term water damage. The source would be those cantilevered, horizontal 2x stock he used to break up the slab-sided aspect of the back-sloping clerestory. These created a water catching surface that invites water intrusion. Today, we would cap each 2x with a a galvanized drip cap - albeit a custom bent one for this project. Once on the top deck, I could feel how the redwood decking seared my bare feet. This is not at all unusual in Southern California. Redwood is not native, and while it is resistant to rot, it is NOT resistant to the effect of the sun. UV degradation of these materials is quite evident, especially on the deck. This degradation of local materials elsewhere is also fairly common, especially in the houses that relied on local workers and local materials: Falling Water, Ennis House, Millard House. The cantilevered concrete beams at Falling Water were poured in sections with cold joints and had to be propped up. The textile blocks in other houses have to be destroyed to be removed for repairs and the rebar has to be cut to put new ones back in. IF - and that's a big if - you can find FORMS to cast the replacements. [Of course, they could be cast as two halves and grouted together; but that would impair the structural value of the blocks and the thin re-bar behind the bad panels would usually be rusted through as well.] The original furniture was striking and it is awesome to see that it stayed with the house all this time. It is always interesting to see how his newer styles grow from the older ones. I was able to observe this at a retrospective exhibit of his **complete** oeuvre at the MoMA in about 1977. They had his concept sketches, the earliest renderings from his apprentice days and the subsequent completed works: Hollyhock House, Textile Houses, Usonian houses. The very last item on display was his 6 foot high concept sketch for the "Mile High City" in Chicago. The guy was no small thinker. No sir.
Is the Ennis House (Blade Runner) renovated yet? I read it was still in disrepair. Tough when FLW didn't sweat the details (like his construction team).
@@philiplongee1149 I doubt that it is fully renovated. I don't know for certain, but I doubt it. The problem is that the house is owned by a preservation collective and they are either flush with or starved for cash and it's never enough to do the whole job. Especially not when the materials are so hard to find or work with.
Really interesting to read your story about F.L Wright, I would love to visit that exhibition back in 1977 and to bad that Mile High City never was realised. Yes it's true that many Wright designs have there disadvantages; high maintanance costs and narrow corridors, kitchen and hallways. Still the houses are so beautifull that I would accept the downsides, if I would have the opportunity to live in Wright designed house.
@@SuperJobbel The FLW archives have many unbuilt houses he designed on spec. You can select one of the designs to build ... For a fee of course. They will update the plans to meet modern codes while preserving the design. And it will be a one off.
@John Lautner Architecture Videos Thank you for the drawings. Do you know about Wright’s Clark Foreman House or Any Rand’s “cottage” and studio? Neither were built. The only images and plans I’ve seen of both projects are what’s in the Columbia archives. I can’t believe you got to tour the Wolff house. Does it feel small or large because of the 16’ ceilings in the living room?
I've heard about the Clark Foreman House, but unfortunately I haven't any drawings or pictures of it. The Wolff house feels extremely large and spatial, although it's not even that big, it's one of my favorite homes. It's a house that deserves a visit.
@@richclarkeshow The funny thing is that Antonio Banderas is Spanish and I'm Dutch. So I don't know how my accent can be mistaken for a Spanish dialect! haha.
You neglected to mention that the staircase you said went to the "cellar," led to a small room under the main floor where Sturges spent hours at editing film. I don't think it had a window, but surrounded by bricks and concrete, it was probably a very good place to work without distractions.
Okay great information. Yes I knew that the Jack Larson and James Bridges (the people who lived in the house for the longest time) used the cellar for editing films. But i left it out otherwise the video would be to long.
Architects in the future should be trained to not just design but also shop for special materials, lean manufacturing and actually manage and construct the house they design so it's one stop shop giving nearly accurate results.
This is a nitpicky question, but why do you go to all the trouble of making these videos and then post them with 480 resolution when other videos on TH-cam are posted in 4K?
This is a really interesting question because i never realised that I posted them in 480! Honestly I don't know to post them in 4K... How do you that? It has something to do with the presets in which I export them from Adobe Premiere, the entire video exist of Jpeg photos so I on't if it can be done in 4k. I don't consider this a nitpicky question because it improves the videos. Thank you!
There is so much exposed wood for all the termite problems we have here in California. Is redwood particularly termite-resistant? I wonder if the house has had problems with this over the years.
I don't know for sure but I guess Redwood. The favorite wood of F.L Wright. Many of his houses are built with redwood. It indeed needs a lot of maintenance when exposed to the burning Californian sun.
Hey, mooi om te horen! Ik wil dit TH-cam kanaal uitbreiden met werk van andere architecten. Frank Lloyd Wright wordt de eerste architect over wie ik meerdere films wil maken. Ik ga denk ik nog een film over een film over de Usonian style maken of over 1 specifiek huis van Usonia. Ik ga zeker contact met je opnemen. Maar eerst nog 5 videos afmaken over John Lautner. Dus het zal januari of februari zijn als ik contact met je opneem. Spreek je! :)
Very interesting interior and exterior design features, however, the exterior of the house looks a bit deteriorated and could stand a restoration. Although I admire Wright for his forward thinking designs, but the home interior has a spooky vibe to it like most of Wright’s other houses. I’m sure back in its day it was considered modern and innovative, especially the cantilevered main living area and deck.
For it's time it was a truly groundbreaking modernist design. Indeed some, not all, of Wright's designs look a bit spooky due to the large shape, lack of windows and placed on hill, especially the Ennis House looks mysterious: but I like it! It gives a cinematic drama quality to the house. The red wood that Wright used extensively dries out in the burning Californian sun, this explains the deteriorated look of the house...
"Proper education" maybe "academic education" would be more accurate. Apprenticeship was the predominant path for the education of architects when FLW apprenticed with Adler and Sullivan and was not uncommon when Lautner apprenticed with Wright and was still an option in the 1980's. The tableware on the dining table looked like Japanese porcelain custom enameled with Wright's designs.
Okay yes ''academic education'' was indeed better but it didn't come to my mind because English it's not my first language (Dutch is mother tongue) so therefore my knowledge of English words is limited. Thank you for your feedback!
I dont know if John Lautner had influence on the design, but it definitely has many similarities with his work. John Lautner did also the renovation of the house so it takes an important place in his career.
Yes, almost all houses by John Lautner are in California. However F.L Wright also made a lot of homes in the Los Angeles area. So both did architecture on the west coast. however, the comparison father and son is very well chosen!!
"But to answer this question, we first need to go back t..." No... no we don't. 😅 I love a good story as much as the next guy, but PLEASE find another intro!
Very enjoyable but your property valuations are way off. Real estate prices have increased exponentially compared to other measures of purchasing power. In the major population areas of the country a $15,000 house in the early 1950s could easily be a million dollars or more in 2021.
Yes that's true. But I ment money inflation. 15.000 would be 220.000 in todays money. of course the property prices have increased well above the inflation, in the Los Angeles the prices have increased 5 times the inflation.Real estate and pieces of ground are a very good investment. But in the video I ment the costs of building the house.
Yes, but keep in mind that all of designs were made more than half a century ago, some of them even more than a century. in those days most houses were not as comfortable as we are used today. Still it's true that Wright mostly choose design over practicality .
Practicality differs from generation to generation. All of Wright's house designs were lived in by the people they were built for- - in many cases for years. Your opinion about "practical residential living" is about you, not about these buildings. I have spent many nights in Wright buildings. They were wonderful to sleep in and wake up in. I recommend you do that before you raise the spectre of "practicality" to condemn the work of the greatest architect of the C20.
@@tobiolopainto Okay great to see that you have slept in a Wright designed home, I never had that privilege. I think most of his home are very comfortable to live in, although today living standards have changed. We're all a bit spoiled with more luxury in our houses.
Great design, but ultimately it's always the same: A spectacular design on a spectacular property may not be something everyone can do, but it is much easier than creating a user-oriented building where there is no slope, river or waterfall available. Grandiose designs under these conditions would be more interesting.
That's a common complain about the houses of these architects: the houses are more works of art than actual homes, but they are still more beautiful and more interesting than the comftable designs of today. Also these houses were designed more than 80 years ago: For its time they were not really uncomfortable. If they were designed today : Frank L Wright was able built them much more comfortable and user oriented.
Ugly execution of nice idea. And i had art, architecture, history of art as major in high school. Bauhaus fetish gone wild and out of context globally, no connection to human needs and connction to nature lost. Also, when i worked in home care as a nurse, male architects and male designer always forget to think about getting old, weak and disabled: entrance with steps, too tight doors to push walker or wheelchair with own arms and hands,, to small bathrooms and levitated shower that is dangerous. No space for two nurses to help plegic ppl. No space for lifters in bathrooms. European homes are not better.
Never been a fan of wright. He supposedly designed structure that were in harmony with nature, yet his buildings , with their unrelenting lines and sharp angles,are jarring to their setting, and seem intrusive, not harmonious, to their setting. In my opinion, Gaudi is a much more innovative architect, whose smoothly curving lines are more attuned to their surrounding-vastly superior to wright. I lived in oak park Il.,where there are multiple wright structures, and their owners often complain of bad design and poor construction. Sad to say, but wright was apparently a cad( he abandoned his wife) and a fraud -a not so great Great Man.
Okay that's you opinion. I really love his designs. But I agree with you that nowaday most of his homes are difficult to live in, it are old houses and not comfortable compared to todays living standards. But anyway they 're always interesting enough to make videos about.
FLW was a notoriously appalling bad engineer and the house was almost made with timber beams instead of i-beams (see Wikipedia.) Apparently the LA city engineers stopped this from being a disaster. Nasty little bedrooms -- a Wright signature. And the usual vile, cramped, dark kitchen. I think Wright had contempt for women. Interesting piece of sculpture, but looks miserable to live in.
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As an architect you really got down to what I want to know about a house. Your careful deconstruction showed just how construction, stretched to the limit (and sagging in a few places!) was an integral component of the design of these houses, not an afterthought. Absolutely excellent video.
Thank you very much, for your admiration. Yes, its my aim to make videos as complete as possible about each house, so i'm very happy to hear that I'have succeeded in doing that. Your message stimulates me to go on. I will be uploading more videos about F.L Wright in the future, I already have made several videos about John Lautner.
The channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now th-cam.com/video/2CjANCkhfHI/w-d-xo.html Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in the next months .
as a mechanical engineering technologist (who is looking at my own build on steep slope property) these videos are excellent reviews of the best built houses I have seen on some of the most complex terrain. Case study and all similar projects are so inspiring. Your commentary and narration is perfect.
Thanks for your comment, great that you liked the video. More videos will come up soon!
This house has always haunted me with it's structural design, and yet so simple layout. It's a testament to FLW's brilliance in every possible circumstance. It's really difficult to imagine anyone else pulling something like this off, and doing it so well.
That's what makes him the boss, in my opinion of course. And Lautner obviously owes much to him.
I agree with you. Lautner and Wright are my favorites.
Once again, Jop, you have created an enthralling tour of another masterwork. Thank you for your great care and attention to the structural and artistic details as well as creating the feeling of actually walking through each building. It is always such a treat to see a new video from you. Thank you for bringing back memories of Hollywood, where I lived for 8 years until recently. Indeed, I often walked by the Freeman House. Please keep 'em coming!
Thank you that you appriciate my videos so much, i really like that you say "that you feel like walking through each house", because thats my purpose with these videos. I love to make new videos so they keep on coming
Nice guided tour by marking inside to outside window openings gives you a better understanding of the outside form and it’s relation to the interior function.
thank you!
You're welcome! Sometimes its difficult to understand the layout of a house, so therefore I did that: to give people a complete overview of the houses.
Thank you Jop for yet another little gem of a video. The cantilever on this house is incredible.
Thank you. I love this cantilevering house. Lautner and Wright are my favorite archtitects, so I will made more videos about Wright in the future.
@@SuperJobbel How about Ray Kappe? I would say that he's my 2nd favorite after Lautner..
@@milootje007 yes I also really like Ray Kappe. Im gonna do some videos about some of his houses someday
@@milootje007 i recently uploaded a video about the Harvey House by Lautner, but I had to took it down, because there was a spelling mistake in it . You responed to that video with a link towards a house by Neutra, but because I replaced the video your answer was also removed. Could you please place that link again? Thanks!
If you're into Wright, the Sturges house gives you shivers. After decades of admiration, I have to say I have mixed feelings about having the street facing facade be "blank". Also, the minimal size of early usonians without a basement forces "discipline" on the inhabitants. But if you're a fan, these are quibbles. It is interesting to fantasize how FLW would have created an addition to Sturges. Wright created many later additions on Usonians.
Yes, most Usonians are not very practical to live in but very beautiful. I think that if Wright would designed an addition it would be a separate structure or otherwise an enclosement of the carport into a guest house. The house itself is estheticly perfect so any addition would ruin it.
Very well done ! all you can expect of a video visit is here ! I learned a lot about this house in 12 minutes, more than with books about FLW
Thank you! I'm very honoured that you like my videos so much. This stimulates me to make more films about the houses by Wright and Lautner. I want to make my videos as informative as possible, so if you say that you learned more than books about F.L Wright, than I know that i've succeeded.
Thanks for the vid, it really helped me out when i was srucked
Okay you're welcome. I like making these videos for people to enjoy. I hope your doing well. Good luck!
Fantastic work, I really appreciate the depth you go into each aspect of the project. Simple informational drawings tell so much, thank you.
Thannk you, that you liked the video. I want to make the description of the houses as complete as possible. The posiyive response I get stimulates me to go on.
the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now th-cam.com/video/2CjANCkhfHI/w-d-xo.html Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in the next months .
Frank Lloyd wright is a unique architect that never repeated and his theory inspired and followed by many architects
Yes, all his designs look different and that's what makes his work so ineresting. That's just what it makes fun to make these videos.
My parents in law’s house aspired the same atmosphere. Brick walls, timber, the same kind of sitting benches, Eames furniture and a bibambolla…
This is the "North by Northwest" movie house !!! I LOOOOOOVE THIS HOUSE !!! This the most glamourous house in the world ! Eva Marie Saint and Clark Gable are about to kiss each other on the terrace...
Great i love that movie to, I can also imagine Grant and Saint on the terrace.
What a beautiful design! Such imagination!
Once again, a perfect walkthrough with the combination of your artwork and the still photos. Thank you again.
You're welcome! Really great to read that you apprriciate the video, more content will come up.
@@SuperJobbel really looking forward to enjoy more of your work. The buildings really come alive with your skillful drawings. Thanks again!
Thank you, more videos will come up! Just saw your reaction today, after 7 months. @@choryferguson2196
Thrilling structure lifts the spirit !
The Sturges House is a longtime favorite of the Usonian houses, and to learn about the connection between Wright, John Lautner and this house has literally added a new dimension to my life. Thanks for posting .
Thank you, It fills me with joy that you like the videos so much! I make these videos to show the people how great John Lautner and F.L Wright were, to preserve their legacy. I found that there was not enough iformation on the internet about there houses.
Thank you for so beautifully translating these masterpieces!
great to hear that you liked the video so much. I want to translate the houses so complete as possible. More videos about the houses by Wright will be uploaded in the future, but first I focus on all the houses by Lautner.
the channel starts again with a new series of videos. The first video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is available now th-cam.com/video/2CjANCkhfHI/w-d-xo.html Many more videos about Lautner and Wright will come up in a few months .
Thank you admire the work the two did.
What a beautiful house. So ahead of its time.
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Thank you again for another amazing video. Its always a great treat to see your new session and tribute to my favourite Architect. G
Great to hear that you admire my videos so much. Next week I will upload a new video about John Lautner's Harvey House. Another videos about Pearlman Mountain Cabin and Concannon house will come up later. So stay tuned! :).
This is really well done. Thank you so much for illuminating this curious and phenomenal home.
You're welcome! Thanks for appriciating my videos. I want to make complete overviews of all John Lautner designs and most FLLW designs. I love their work, check out also the other videos about their houses.
Really enjoy the steep slope solving architecture the best.
Excellent tour! Thanks!
Love it. I’d place living plants everywhere. 💜
Great choice! Living plants combine very well with organic archtitecture.
i love the natural concept thank you
That was excellent. Beautifully explained, thank you and best wishes.
Thank you for your admiration. I want to make the tours as complete as possible and the videos as good as can be. More videos will come up about all houses by Lautner and Wright.
The projected cost of $220,000 may be the adjusted for inflation cost, but materials and labor costs have not followed that linear line. The cost of building the house would be 3x-4x-that today, more in the 700k-1million range.
Yes youre right. It's way more expensive nowadays, unfortunately for the art of architecture but more fair towards the blue collar workers who all make this magnificent houses possible.
I must say that your video of the Sturges house (and your other videos) to me rises above all others the way Frank Lloyd Wright rises above all other architects. I have my favorites in other fields of art such as music, writing, movies, etc., but nothing for me is as breathtaking as the house that does not look like one. Who in the architectural world, or in any similar setting, would accept the challenge of a letter of request for a house plan on a lot that had to be priced at $10 before anyone would buy it? On that lot there is now a house far more captivating to me than any other. There are many great things about the house, but I love especially that from the street, you cannot see any windows or doors. So much for the house. I think you must be the ultimate architectural video explainer. When you finish, is there anything left to be explained?
Thank you for your beautiful comment! It's really heartwarming to read such positive reactions and it stimulates me to make more videos. Like an architect I'm really passionate about making these videos, constructing them with photos and drawings. This is also one of my favorites, because you can't see any windows and with its unusual shape it looks like a sculpture. Yesterday I just uploaded a new video about the Ernest Lautner house in Florida. Which is also a great Wright like sculptural design. Wright and Lautner are my favorite architects, but I also love Neutra in the 2nd place. Good luck and till the next video!
You can see the influence on Lautner with the terrace that connects the bedrooms. Much like in the Schwimmer house.
If you ever run out of ideas, perhaps you can make a video which contains Lautner architecture which was influenced by Wright. Of course other architects can be compared as well. Thanks for sharing your thorough productions.
Thank you, nice that you like the videos. If I have done all the videos about Lautner, Wright and Neutra homes, I'm gonna make a video about there influences. In many videos I already try to refer about the influences of Wrigth on the works by Lautner. There are many similarities yet differences between Wright and Lautner. You must also check the video about the Wolff House,which is very influenced by Wright.
Love your videos - thank you! I so much like to look at unusual homes.
Yes , thank you. More unusual houses coming up.
I believe this house was long owned by the actor that played Jimmie Olsen on the original Superman TV series. The nuts and bolts explanation was just lovely.
Yes, you're right Jack Larson who played Jimmy Olsen lived in this house for more thant three decades together with his partner film director James Bridges. Thanks that you liked the video so much!
Genius. Truly inspired
Amazing work as always! Thank you!
You're welcome. I love to make this videos and i really like that people appriciate them.
Great stuff
Alfred Hitchcock and Frank Lloyd Wright made North By Northwest a great movie.
AWESOME!
Great job on this vid!
Thanks!!
Oh!! I never connected the Hitchcock house to this house!!!!!
You are right!!!!!
Yes the VanDamme house has the most similarities with the Sturges House, so its based mostly on that house, but there is also a strong Fallingwater influence in it. Also some Taliesin East influences. A combination of multiple Wright designs. A great set piece in a fantastic movie anyway.
Actually Hitchcock wanted an FLW style house so much he actually contacted Frank Lloyd to do it for him for the film. Though Hitchcock balked at "The usual ten percent" fee that FLW was asking for when it became obbious FLW wanted ten percent of the production cost of the entire film and not the cost of making the set design.
As a resident of Los Angeles, a FLW fan, and a licensed building contractor,I have to say that this vid shows the man at his essence, both good and bad. Mr. Cornelis gives us the very good; his picture selection shows the bad. We can see the undersized passageways, kitchen and bath. FLW disliked these spaces as they detracted from the design. The hallway is especially narrow. This house is unusual in that the bathroom and kitchen are on the same floor as the living area. However, there is no basement per se to tuck them in as he did in his more sumptuous signature houses.
The architect was famous for the bad roofs on his structures and how difficult it would be to repair them. On the exterior walls, especially around the windows, there is evidence of major and long-term water damage. The source would be those cantilevered, horizontal 2x stock he used to break up the slab-sided aspect of the back-sloping clerestory. These created a water catching surface that invites water intrusion. Today, we would cap each 2x with a a galvanized drip cap - albeit a custom bent one for this project. Once on the top deck, I could feel how the redwood decking seared my bare feet. This is not at all unusual in Southern California.
Redwood is not native, and while it is resistant to rot, it is NOT resistant to the effect of the sun. UV degradation of these materials is quite evident, especially on the deck. This degradation of local materials elsewhere is also fairly common, especially in the houses that relied on local workers and local materials: Falling Water, Ennis House, Millard House. The cantilevered concrete beams at Falling Water were poured in sections with cold joints and had to be propped up. The textile blocks in other houses have to be destroyed to be removed for repairs and the rebar has to be cut to put new ones back in. IF - and that's a big if - you can find FORMS to cast the replacements. [Of course, they could be cast as two halves and grouted together; but that would impair the structural value of the blocks and the thin re-bar behind the bad panels would usually be rusted through as well.]
The original furniture was striking and it is awesome to see that it stayed with the house all this time. It is always interesting to see how his newer styles grow from the older ones. I was able to observe this at a retrospective exhibit of his **complete** oeuvre at the MoMA in about 1977. They had his concept sketches, the earliest renderings from his apprentice days and the subsequent completed works: Hollyhock House, Textile Houses, Usonian houses. The very last item on display was his 6 foot high concept sketch for the "Mile High City" in Chicago. The guy was no small thinker. No sir.
Is the Ennis House (Blade Runner) renovated yet? I read it was still in disrepair. Tough when FLW didn't sweat the details (like his construction team).
@@philiplongee1149 I doubt that it is fully renovated. I don't know for certain, but I doubt it. The problem is that the house is owned by a preservation collective and they are either flush with or starved for cash and it's never enough to do the whole job. Especially not when the materials are so hard to find or work with.
Really interesting to read your story about F.L Wright, I would love to visit that exhibition back in 1977 and to bad that Mile High City never was realised. Yes it's true that many Wright designs have there disadvantages; high maintanance costs and narrow corridors, kitchen and hallways. Still the houses are so beautifull that I would accept the downsides, if I would have the opportunity to live in Wright designed house.
I think they are still busy with renovation. I don't know when they are finished.
@@SuperJobbel The FLW archives have many unbuilt houses he designed on spec. You can select one of the designs to build ... For a fee of course. They will update the plans to meet modern codes while preserving the design. And it will be a one off.
@John Lautner Architecture Videos Thank you for the drawings. Do you know about Wright’s Clark Foreman House or Any Rand’s “cottage” and studio? Neither were built. The only images and plans I’ve seen of both projects are what’s in the Columbia archives. I can’t believe you got to tour the Wolff house. Does it feel small or large because of the 16’ ceilings in the living room?
I've heard about the Clark Foreman House, but unfortunately I haven't any drawings or pictures of it. The Wolff house feels extremely large and spatial, although it's not even that big, it's one of my favorite homes. It's a house that deserves a visit.
Fabulous.
Cantilevered to perfection.
Absolutely!
Clever! ;)
I didn't know that Antonio Banderas was so into architecture!
Haha... I'm guess that hassomething to do with my accent?
@@SuperJobbel :) Indeed. Loving the videos Jop... I mean... Antonio!
@@richclarkeshow The funny thing is that Antonio Banderas is Spanish and I'm Dutch. So I don't know how my accent can be mistaken for a Spanish dialect! haha.
Exciting design! Several photos show water damage; and the LA sun doesn’t help the naked wood either; and termite heaven?
I dont know wether termites are a problem or not with the house. It's without a doubt a difficult house to maintain.
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You neglected to mention that the staircase you said went to the "cellar," led to a small room under the main floor where Sturges spent hours at editing film. I don't think it had a window, but surrounded by bricks and concrete, it was probably a very good place to work without distractions.
Okay great information. Yes I knew that the Jack Larson and James Bridges (the people who lived in the house for the longest time) used the cellar for editing films. But i left it out otherwise the video would be to long.
@@SuperJobbel videos about architecture can NEVER be too long, especially when it comes to the legendary Lautner and Wright!
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Heard that Jimmy Olsen lived there. Superman and Lois Lane would stop over.
Yes Jack Larson (who played Olsen) lived there for more than 40 years, together with his partner film director James Bridges.
Love it!! 😎💯
Architects in the future should be trained to not just design but also shop for special materials, lean manufacturing and actually manage and construct the house they design so it's one stop shop giving nearly accurate results.
yes john Lautner learned it that way. Every aspiring architect should do so.
I wish architects would revisit their houses 5, 10 and 20 years after, to learn what did and did not work.
Hear, hear, echoing all the positive comments below. :)
This is a nitpicky question, but why do you go to all the trouble of making these videos and then post them with 480 resolution when other videos on TH-cam are posted in 4K?
This is a really interesting question because i never realised that I posted them in 480! Honestly I don't know to post them in 4K... How do you that? It has something to do with the presets in which I export them from Adobe Premiere, the entire video exist of Jpeg photos so I on't if it can be done in 4k. I don't consider this a nitpicky question because it improves the videos. Thank you!
Wow 1939 It looks so modern
There is so much exposed wood for all the termite problems we have here in California. Is redwood particularly termite-resistant? I wonder if the house has had problems with this over the years.
Uhmm... I didn't research that! I don't know the answer to that question. maybe it's protected with some kind of coating.
Redwood trees/wood termite resistant YES.
What timber has been used? It needed quite a regular maintenance I suppose. Meranti?
I don't know for sure but I guess Redwood. The favorite wood of F.L Wright. Many of his houses are built with redwood. It indeed needs a lot of maintenance when exposed to the burning Californian sun.
gran persona ! fue mi abuelo se caso con mi abuela francisca mexicana.
Arango es tu abuelo? fantástico! ¿alguna vez has estado en la casa?
@@SuperJobbel no amigo el arquitecto fue mi abuelo gran tipo muy buena persona !
Ik ben een enorme fan van Usonia en weet er veel van af. Mocht je ooit iets willen weten over het systeem, laat maar weten!
Hey, mooi om te horen! Ik wil dit TH-cam kanaal uitbreiden met werk van andere architecten. Frank Lloyd Wright wordt de eerste architect over wie ik meerdere films wil maken. Ik ga denk ik nog een film over een film over de Usonian style maken of over 1 specifiek huis van Usonia. Ik ga zeker contact met je opnemen. Maar eerst nog 5 videos afmaken over John Lautner. Dus het zal januari of februari zijn als ik contact met je opneem. Spreek je! :)
Very interesting interior and exterior design features, however, the exterior of the house looks a bit deteriorated and could stand a restoration. Although I admire Wright for his forward thinking designs, but the home interior has a spooky vibe to it like most of Wright’s other houses. I’m sure back in its day it was considered modern and innovative, especially the cantilevered main living area and deck.
For it's time it was a truly groundbreaking modernist design. Indeed some, not all, of Wright's designs look a bit spooky due to the large shape, lack of windows and placed on hill, especially the Ennis House looks mysterious: but I like it! It gives a cinematic drama quality to the house. The red wood that Wright used extensively dries out in the burning Californian sun, this explains the deteriorated look of the house...
It looks like when Minecraft generates a village into the side of a mountain and it makes weird village buildings
Yes it looks indeed very cubical! :)
Isn't this house like Fallingwater which is built over a brook ?
Yes it's made by the same architect and from the same architect. Both house are cantilevering a hillside.
The Jean Claude Van Damme house does the splits
Which Jean Claude van Damme house do you mean?
"Proper education" maybe "academic education" would be more accurate. Apprenticeship was the predominant path for the education of architects when FLW apprenticed with Adler and Sullivan and was not uncommon when Lautner apprenticed with Wright and was still an option in the 1980's.
The tableware on the dining table looked like Japanese porcelain custom enameled with Wright's designs.
Okay yes ''academic education'' was indeed better but it didn't come to my mind because English it's not my first language (Dutch is mother tongue) so therefore my knowledge of English words is limited. Thank you for your feedback!
Nice presentation. The house has not aged well.
yes it keeps a lot of money and effort to maintain such a house.
It's over 80 years old. Most houses that old have been refreshed 4 or 5 times already.
I wonder if Lautner may have had a hand in designing it.
I dont know if John Lautner had influence on the design, but it definitely has many similarities with his work. John Lautner did also the renovation of the house so it takes an important place in his career.
After visiting some of his houses the guides said the roofs leaked and he didn't care.
Yes that's ture some of his house are leaking.
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They should really differentiate between the father and son. The son did the architecture on the West Coast...
Yes, almost all houses by John Lautner are in California. However F.L Wright also made a lot of homes in the Los Angeles area. So both did architecture on the west coast. however, the comparison father and son is very well chosen!!
Was that Peter Lougherys house?
Not that I know, the house was owned by film actor Jack Larson and director James Bridges for many years.
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You're right, Peter sold it for them.
"But to answer this question, we first need to go back t..."
No... no we don't. 😅 I love a good story as much as the next guy, but PLEASE find another intro!
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Very enjoyable but your property valuations are way off. Real estate prices have increased exponentially compared to other measures of purchasing power. In the major population areas of the country a $15,000 house in the early 1950s could easily be a million dollars or more in 2021.
Yes that's true. But I ment money inflation. 15.000 would be 220.000 in todays money. of course the property prices have increased well above the inflation, in the Los Angeles the prices have increased 5 times the inflation.Real estate and pieces of ground are a very good investment. But in the video I ment the costs of building the house.
@@SuperJobbel Thanks so much for sharing the video. It wonderfully describes the house. You've started me onto other similar video.
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Frank seemed to be more of an artist than an architect. In my opinion, most of his designs aren't practical for residential living.
Yes, but keep in mind that all of designs were made more than half a century ago, some of them even more than a century. in those days most houses were not as comfortable as we are used today. Still it's true that Wright mostly choose design over practicality .
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I agree and understand.
That's the most important aspect of his work; innovation.
He was definitely ahead of his time.
Practicality differs from generation to generation. All of Wright's house designs were lived in by the people they were built for- - in many cases for years. Your opinion about "practical residential living" is about you, not about these buildings. I have spent many nights in Wright buildings. They were wonderful to sleep in and wake up in. I recommend you do that before you raise the spectre of "practicality" to condemn the work of the greatest architect of the C20.
@@tobiolopainto Okay great to see that you have slept in a Wright designed home, I never had that privilege. I think most of his home are very comfortable to live in, although today living standards have changed. We're all a bit spoiled with more luxury in our houses.
@@seancurry579 Yes he was a master of innovation! Practicality is difffers for many people and is a matter of opinion.
Great design, but ultimately it's always the same: A spectacular design on a spectacular property may not be something everyone can do, but it is much easier than creating a user-oriented building where there is no slope, river or waterfall available. Grandiose designs under these conditions would be more interesting.
That's a common complain about the houses of these architects: the houses are more works of art than actual homes, but they are still more beautiful and more interesting than the comftable designs of today. Also these houses were designed more than 80 years ago: For its time they were not really uncomfortable. If they were designed today : Frank L Wright was able built them much more comfortable and user oriented.
FLW crazy cantilevers see Falling Water
Yes he has made many cantilevering designs.
Ugly execution of nice idea. And i had art, architecture, history of art as major in high school.
Bauhaus fetish gone wild and out of context globally, no connection to human needs and connction to nature lost.
Also, when i worked in home care as a nurse, male architects and male designer always forget to think about getting old, weak and disabled: entrance with steps, too tight doors to push walker or wheelchair with own arms and hands,, to small bathrooms and levitated shower that is dangerous. No space for two nurses to help plegic ppl. No space for lifters in bathrooms.
European homes are not better.
Yes it;s a very old house and for todays sandards it's indeed not practical for old people.
Never been a fan of wright. He supposedly designed structure that were in harmony with nature, yet his buildings , with their unrelenting lines and sharp angles,are jarring to their setting, and seem intrusive, not harmonious, to their setting. In my opinion, Gaudi is a much more innovative architect, whose smoothly curving lines are more attuned to their surrounding-vastly superior to wright. I lived in oak park Il.,where there are multiple wright structures, and their owners often complain of bad design and poor construction. Sad to say, but wright was apparently a cad( he abandoned his wife) and a fraud -a not so great Great Man.
Okay that's you opinion. I really love his designs. But I agree with you that nowaday most of his homes are difficult to live in, it are old houses and not comfortable compared to todays living standards. But anyway they 're always interesting enough to make videos about.
Für einen derart häßlichen Bunker braucht man echt 'nen Architekten ???
Das ist ihre Meinung. Ich liebe das Haus. Grussen aus Niederlande! :)
FLW was a notoriously appalling bad engineer and the house was almost made with timber beams instead of i-beams (see Wikipedia.) Apparently the LA city engineers stopped this from being a disaster. Nasty little bedrooms -- a Wright signature. And the usual vile, cramped, dark kitchen. I think Wright had contempt for women. Interesting piece of sculpture, but looks miserable to live in.
It takes affort to live in an amazing artwork. I guess.