Wolff House by John Lautner, complete overview and walkthrough
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This video is about John Lautner's masterpiece The Wolff House. A good example of organic archtiecture.
This was the creativity and thought process in 1960...and with pencil and draught board ...no CAD CAM ....WOW...leaves todays architecture for dead. Thank you for this spectacular tour!
You're welcome! Great that you liked the video. It keeps surprising me how inventive Lautner's houses are and it's almost unbelievable that they were made in a time that you could only design with hand made drawings. Each house by Lautner is different than the other one and each one is full of smart details, inventions and features. That is what I like about making these videos: to more you look into the designs, the better they become.
The solutions Mr Lautner found in each design to the intricacies of the plots without losing his style; not only is quite remarkable but not achieved by most modern Architects.
The landscape dictates the enginering of the house, this makes each design very different from the other one. The more you look into the design, the more interesting they become. They are all full of surprises. By making these videos I found new construction details each time.
Not as if we didn't know this already, but Lautner was a genius. The diversity in his designs is like no other. And even though he is celebrated i still feel like he was way more important than we give him credit for.
Thank you as always Jop, even for dedicated followers of Lautner's houses your videos hold a lot of information.
Thank you for you compliments, I will go on with making more videos about all his houses. I completely agree with your opnion about Lautner: yes he's an underrated genius!
Hey the channel is starting again with new videos. A new video about Fallingwater by F.L Wright is just available, after this more videos about the works by Lautner and Wright will come up. th-cam.com/video/2CjANCkhfHI/w-d-xo.html Enjoy!
Your voice reminds me of Bela Lugosi.
Terrific video. Thorough, and I love the newer pictures added. You're right, this is a truly spectacular design by Lautner.
Spectacular house. Lautner was a genius!
You're absolutely right!
You are very good at interpreting the design intent by your description of Lautner's plans, and your drawings really help in understanding the layouts. I will keep watching for your videos.
Thank you more videos will come up!
Brilliant video 🌟 the high ceilings are much better for Southern California weather and who wouldn't love to wake up and jump into the pool?
He seems to me the architect who achieves the impossible. And then you explain it, but the house still looks like it's going to fall down the hill. But they never do, and he built one right after another. They amaze me in countless ways. They look magical, which is the gift of the best & most masterful architect. This one had up-to-date decor, too, which was fun. That "atomic sunburst" chandelier was a showstopper!!!
''The architect who achieves the impossible'''That's the right way to describe John Lautner. The more you study the houses the more amazing and magical they become. The atomic sunburst chandelier was a detail that I personally overlooked, now you mentioned it, I notice it. So even I get surprised after study all these photos. Thank you! :)
I stumbled upon this house when it was listed for sale a couple of years ago, I fell in love with it though the listing's photos made it look smaller than it actually is. This presentation is excellent and makes me wish I had of bought this wonderful house!
Thanks that you liked my video so much, this stimulates to make more videos. So bad that you hadn't bought the house when you had the opportunity, it's a wonderfull design and it's my dream house. The house goes up in value all the time, it has recently been sold for 11 million. While it was listed for 5 million only a few years ago. So I guess I will never be able to buy it. :)
An absolute triumph of good design. I wish I had discovered Lautner many, many, years ago. Now in my twilight years I am so content just to have discovered this channel and can binge watch at leisure. I am most grateful for all the hard work you have put into making these wonderful videos.
thank you that you like my videos. Your reaction and the comments of other stimulate me to go on with these overviews. I love John Lautner and he deserves more attention so I want to share his houses with the world. To make the overview of the houses as complete as possible.
It is more intriguing each time I view this presentation
Thank you. It's indeed an amazing house that becomes better every time you see it.
This is a masterpiece! Thank you. If I saw your videos at a younger age, I’d be inspired to study architecture in college.
okay thanks! That's a great honour to hear that!
I have already discovered this amazing house ♥ I'm out of words
Yes it's breathtaking!
Your genius is outstanding. It conveys the genius of these architects better than other videos I'd seen before I found your work. Thank you very much.
You're welcome! more videos will come up. (thanks for calling me a genius, but these architects are the true masters. I never designed a house myself...haha)
Another great video my friend. This is also one of my two favourites Lautner works (original part) along with the Sheats Goldstein. I think this project shows his unique approach with a difficult site making perceived design issues become triumphant and elegant design solutions. Keep up the excellent work, it is inspiring. G
Thank you very much! Yes I will go on with making more videos so more Lsutner designs will come up! And yes the house shows how brilliant Lautner can build a house on difficult and challenging location.
One of the most beautiful house 🏠 I’ve ever seen 👍👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
100% agree with you. All houses by Lautner are beautifull though.
Beautifully explained and presented sir with excellent graphics and a perfect relationship to structural layout. You are a natural born teacher.
Thank you that you called me ''a natural born teacher'' i like to make the videos as complete as possible. The houses are so interesting so deserve more attention.
Another wonderful design by Lautner. Always something unique to create the most interesting spaces, both inside and out. Thank you for the tour.
Yes, this is my favorite design by Lautner. I loved to make this video, showing the beauty of this design. Great that you liked the video.
Absolutely my favorite of the Lautner residences.
Yes I agree! ;)
What an amazing home! Beautiful!
Yes it's beautifull home: castles were built to inhabited large amounts of people so therefore they have a lot of large rooms. This house has also many large rooms: so a large family can live here. I like it: you can do a lot of things with it: having your own billiart room, private gym, cinema and art studio. I thing many people can fill all the dead space: unfortunately only a few can pay for it.
What I enjoy most is the exploration of Lautner's creative problem solving. It's inspiring to keep in mind as a designer. I didn't know this one existed, I think I'll drive by it soon. Thanks
Incredible house.
I just watched the first video of this house right before you posted this one. This video really helps get a more cohesive understanding of the design. Thank you so much for doing these videos.
Thank you that you like my channel so much. This stimulates me to make more videos. The first video about the Wolff house gave to little information, it deserved a second better video. Most Lautner designs are very complex so they need complete drawings to understand.
The use of warm woods mixed with stonework make designs like this almost timeless in my opinion. Hard to guess if it is brand new or 60 plus years. The play on Falling Waters is done very well.
Yes it's a masterpiece. Most of the house is still in it's original condition so most of it is still 60 years old. However some of it renovated over the years.
Beautiful
What a piece of art! Thanks for this analysis.
You're welcome. More videos will come up. And yes it's truly a piece of art :)
Man I literally just watched your first video on Wolff House. Thanks so much for making these by the way. They are good.
You're welcome! I will make videos about all the houses by Lautner and Wright.
Another really great Lautner house...
Thank you for showing this house! I had the plants in the photographs in one of John Lautner’s biography books that I purchased a long time ago - but I’ve never seen it in a video and now I can see it is more beautiful than it is in the Photograph… Thank you !
Good to hear that you like my videos so much, this stimulates me to make more videos. I have many books by Lautner but the drawings and photos never give the complete overview, like you said. That's why I started this channel: to show people the houses in there full glory. The houses deserve a video because they are always more beautifull than the photographs.
Thanks for these vids. Lautner was amazing! Each house is dense with dramatic and intriguing incidents at many scales. Right angles are almost verboten, yet the balances are masterful. Each house seems to be an entire world of contrasts and experiences. One is reminded of a Mahler symphony.
Danke schön! I've never heard that someone reminded the houses by John Lautner of the music by Mahler. Yes Lautner is truly amazing. Grüße aus den Niederlanden!
This is a terrific home and such a well done presentation. Thank you for this video! This type of architecture is innovative and artistic. Wonder why the spirit of creating this type of architecture is gone these days? This house built in the 60s is timeless beauty.
Great to read your comment. This house is timeless masterpiece for sure. Now a days it's more difficult to built a house like this because of new regulations in building restrictions and the higher price for craftmanship.
masterpiece..!!
Wow! What a home! ❤️
Excellent, thank you!
I never thought I'd get to go through the interior of "my" favorite Lautner house like this. Well done. But it also points out why none of the books on Lautner ever show the interior of the addition. It pales in comparison to the main house. Maybe there were budgetary constraints or too much owner involvement. But I think John was really a set designer at heart. Why would Hollywood use so many of his works for location shoots.
Thank you for your appriciation. Yes John Lautner his houses are very suitable for movie location because to are so spectaculair. And yes, the guest house is very simple and cheap and pales by comparison. Still I want to give a complete overview of the works by Lautner so I decided to include the Guesthouse into the video.
Great review and description as always, fabulous house ! - cheers from Brisbane
Thank you, more videos will come up. And cheers from the Netherlands! One question: Reitsma sounds like a very Dutch name. Are you from Dutch descent?
Thank you for your very informative videos on the works of Lautner. Though I am an architect I had never heard of L until I came upon. your videos. He was truly a phenomenal architect, and i am glad to have discovered these very inspirational projects. Thank you for your contribution to my creative arsenal. :)
It's wonderfull to hear that you discovered the work by Lautner through my videos. I started this channel because Lautner was so little know and information about his houses was hard to get. I thought he deserved way more attention because he's such a brilliant architect. Show everybody the qualities of his houss that's my aim with this channel. So hearing that you discovered his work through this channel, is a great honour for me. Videos about all the houses by Lautner will come up!
I love the inclusion of nature and trees around the house. This house is well thought out. Things always work better when you think things through.
This house is truly in harmony with nature. Everything is thought out. It's one of my favorite houses and personally I prefer this house over Fallingwater. (a house which I also greatly admire)
Great house!
the guest house was a great addition, nice video!
Thank you, I love making these videos. The guesthouse is indeed a good addition. Its the main house thats best part of this house
Great videos just binged em' all, Segel house soon please!
Yes I'm busy with the Segel House, it's just a matter of time. I guess it will come in July. Each video is a lot of work. Great that you liked the videos so much.
Throughout my career as an Architect I had learned from many architects. William H Short FAIA, Robert Hillier FAIA, E Fay Jones FAIA and Gold Medal Winner, Ernest Jacks AIA, Mort Karp, Herbert Fowler, and two excellent men, Claude Raymond Specification writer and Louis Balestrieri custom home builder and lastly Harry Williams, the builder who invented the home addition business.
Oh wow! You have met a lot of interesting people. A lot of interesting stories you might have heard. I'm feeling jealous: I would love to meet some great architects somed day, Lautner and Wright are my favorites.
As you say it does "become better and better every time you look at it". As to the floating stair reconfiguration I do find it most appealing, as to the balustrade, I would have preferred the privacy which was originally a central hallmark of it's design. Thank you so much for this clear and concise rendition of this masterpiece.
You re welcome. More videos will come up.
Super architecture!
waw nice recently added video, Thanks
Que Linda 😻
It never occurred to me that this was Lautner's take on Falling Water. How interesting.
Yes, the commisionair explicitely asked John Lautner to design an hommage to Fallingwater. It was never JL's own choice to imitate FLW. Once you know it, you see the many similarities with Fallingwater.
Incredible use of the relatively narrow plot of land.
Yes it's truly a very innovative design.
7:24 i find it funny, it's an old house but the picture in the frame is a group shot of the GIJoe characters in the movie GIJoe Rise of Cobra, that's snake eyes in the right most side
Okay hahaha! That's a detail that I never noticed. Very sharp of you to see.
Very complex and high quality house and work to show that to us. Thanks!
At 1:09-10 is there an open in that stone wall?
Thank you that you appriciate the videos so much. No I don't think there's an opening in the wall but it's an illusion on the photograph. I don't know what it is, I guess some colour degration.
@John Lautner Architecture Videos Do you have any pictures of the inside of the guest house? I have only seen pictures of the second level bedroom and what I believe to be the redesigned first level bathroom (green tiles). I would love to see pictures of the other parts of the guest house.
The photos of the guesthouse are at the end of the video. Both 1st and 2nd floor. You can see them near the end of the video at 12:22
So cool. I love these designs. They're so different from the typical cookie cutter houses. Wright and Lautner were truly ahead of their time.
The more you look into these houses the better they become.
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Very difficult calculation to support that enormous cantilever showed at minute 5:15.
I guess that the opposite pillars and concrete walls are many meters into the ground to find some better soil or even better: rocks.
Yes they go several meters in the ground. The design is truly daring in anyway.
Another amazing house!!
Might be a dumb question, but with all the trees he builds around, has there ever been a problem with them falling over?
Good question. As far as I know there was never a problem with them falling over. But I don't know for sure....
I assume there's not storm's there like where I live...Also, that so cool that you answer questions in the comments!..Thanks!
@@shelbyblackmore-mg4nv It could be possible that the trees have steel cables attached to them or have steel supporting footings/studs. But I haven't researched it so I can not give you an accurate answer. You're welcome! I always try to answer every comment. :)
Due to more modern glass technology, Lautner had more freedom to create high glass walls than Wright had. I believe Lautner may have used Hope’s window company where he could achieve thinner window profiles, and larger glass sections.
I don't know which glass company Lautner used: the glass panels are huge and high, I don't know how thick the glass is. It must be very expensive and top quality. A few decades before the house, these glass panels didn't exist so indeed Wright never could have used them, otherwise he probably would have used it.
I'd have to say that I like the remodeled version, with the spiral stair, more than the original.
Okay great, I personally prefer the old stair. But that's just a matter of taste.
You just never see these highly creative artistic little houses anymore.
Nobody builds or even thinks like Wright or Laurier did. Too bad.
Yes they were brilliant architects. Today some great examples of contemporary archtiecture are being built, but it is more rare than in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Those decades were the golden age of modern architecture.
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Weepingly beautiful.
And yes. I made that word up. 😂
Great, you invented a new word: weepingly beautiful is the best way to describe all the house by Lautner.
Who is your music director? Excellent work, lovely video!!!!!!
Haha... I am still my own music editor. I told you I was getting better in choosing music and tuning volumes for the videos. I should replace the old videos with better music.
Ha ha, you have become an excellent editor! If you have the time to replace the old music (volume), the older videos will become easier to watch IMO. Because the content is so valuable it might be worth the trouble. Thanks!
@@DESCENDINGDR Yes I will do it when I have more time. Stay tuned!
Nicolas Ghesquiere, Louis Vuitton's Art Director, just bought and furnished this house. It was his long-time dream house.
Thanks, I didn't knew that! Apparently he has a very good taste for homes!
@@SuperJobbel Yes he has !
How do you get anything (furniture, large appliances, Klipschorns, etc.) into this house? There doesn't seem to be a way. edit: It is an amazing house none the less.
There is a large door which you can see at 7:52 , this door can be fully opened and from the laundry and utility room a part of the wall can slide open. Check the floorplan at 8:00 , on the lower floorlevel you can bring furniture in through the opening which you can see at the floorplan at 9:49
@@SuperJobbel Thanks!
@John Lautner Architecture Videos don’t mean to bother you with so many posts. The most recent renovation turned the storage ares into bedrooms. If you have pictures of these, that would be much appreciated. Do you know the dimensions of the swimming pool?
Oh no bother at all :) I like anwering the questions. Ehm...unfortunately I don't know the exact the dimensions of the swimming pool. Yes, i'd heard that the storage units were transformed into bedrooms but I don't know if there are any photos available yet.
@John Lautner Architecture Videos do you know where we can view the original or any floor plan drawings?
I have the original floorplans and drawings.
wrightchat.savewright.org/viewtopic.php?t=12564
Here are a few of the drawings!
@@SuperJobbel First, thank you! This is my favorite Lautner building and one of my all time favorites. Second, I’ve seen the 3 plans in WrightChat, but can’t make out the details. Do you have better copies? Third, your last post said “here are a few of drawings” but I can’t find them.
@@wm.h.9123 Do you have an email adress than I will send them you, or you can send me an email? I can't upload the orginal drawings.
3:51 Interior tour begins.
Lautner is just Whright but cool
Just undeniable genius. A great homage to FLW. Stunning.
Yes it's a very good hommage to FLW. John Lautner even worked as an assitant of FLW during the construction of Fallingwater. I'm currently busy with making a video about Fallingwater, the video will be uploaded this friday.
anyone who sees this house as a close inspiration from Falling Waters doesn't know anything about architecture. There is no greater credit to John Lautner than that he continued to credit Wright throughout his career even after he clearly surpassed him. What passes as residential architecture in LA today pales in comparison. By any standard the Wolff residence is a masterpiece.
You're right: an absolute masterpiece
Wow pretty much covers it
Yes I want to make complete videos about each house by Lautner and Wright. Covering every detail
Lautner has said that Fallingwater was one of his least favorite Wright designs.
I know he said that, but I never figured why he said it. Do you know why? Still the Wolff house is strongly inspired by it.
I think he felt the floor plan was not as good as Wright could have done.
Maybe because Wright miscalculated the cantilever of Fallingwater. The contractor had to change it, otherwise it fell down.
HI. Love your videos. If you want I can help you to make more technical and good-looking plans floors. I'm an architect and would be an honor collaborate in your videos. Greetings from México.
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Oh Thank you! I really aprriciate this. Please contact me. :) maybe we can work together.
th-cam.com/users/SuperJobbelabout Here you can see my email adress, you can send a private message if you want. Than we can collab.
No more new videos ?😢
No, dont worries new videos will come up. But unfortunately I'm very busy with my job and private life, im moving to another house and a child is born, so my videos are delayed. I'm now busy with a new serie of videos. Hopefully the first of that series will be uploaded in a few weeks.
@@SuperJobbel Thank you for answer and care for your fans.. Wish you good luck for you upgraded family and hope that you new house is similar to some of J Lautners designs..
@@rasicmilosav5290 Thank you! Unfortunately I'm not going to live in a Lautner designed home :( ....still an ordinary appartment. I'm now busy with a video about F.L Wright's Fallingwater Home, after this I will finish all the videos about the remanining Lautner homes. I wish I could make the videos faster, unfortunately each video takes a lot of time to make.
He was my grandfather, I’m selling one of his books .
Was John Lautner your grandfather?
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Oh yes
He was and amazing person , thank you for liking his work
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"favorite" !!??
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Not the Beyer Residence, Elrod House or Casa Marbrisa?
This is a homage......
It's an amazing design while being completely livable. It'd be my choice too.
I love both F.L Wright and John Lautner equally. So when my favorite architect brings a hommage to my other favorite that's a combination of my two other favorite styles. Also this house is very livable and comfortable. The Elrod, Beyer and Marbrisa are more boundarie pushing designs and more original, so from an artistic point of view they are better. But this house is my personal choice to live in. I just love the atmosphere of this house. I'm a sucker for flagstone though... :)
@@SuperJobbel are you disappointed by the change made with the new interior spiral staircase? or do you consider it an improvement?
Mondo Beyondo
I have to agree it is my favorite house design too. Words cant aptly describe the experience just looking at it.
Fully agree with you. I'm currently making a video the Beyer House by Lautner. That house is my 2nd favorite house by Lautner, it's equally wonderfull. The video will be uploaded this week.
@@SuperJobbel Really looking for to see this one. I don't know what it is, but these Mid Cent Artists captured light space and experience in a way that nurtures a deeper sense of joy in ones experience....Dare I say Spiritual architechture☺
@@buddhababeoz Here is the video about the Beyer House. Again a house that captures the light in an unique way and brings the landscape inside: As you said it's indeed spiritual architecture.
th-cam.com/video/RlyvmDHBxqM/w-d-xo.html
In one of your upcoming videos, could you please say the phrase "I want to drink your blood".
Why? Does my dialect sounds like a vampire? Haha!