Schaffer House by John Lautner. Complete overview and walkthrough.
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I previously made a video about the Schaffer House but i was never satisfied with the quality therefore I made 2nd version with better quality photos, new voice over, soundtrack and better drawings. It also explaines the entire roof construction, which I didn't explained in the first video.
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I think what I like best about Lautner houses like this one is that they are so small. They aren't mansions. In fact, they are smaller than the average modern ranch-style house built today. But the architectural details cover every square foot, and the construction is so complicated and intricate, it's just a work of art.
''Works of art'' is the best way to describe these houses. I agree that especially the smaller designs by Lautner are full of great inventions and details. Each of his houses is so complicated: the designs keep intriguing.
I 100% agree with this. Every inch is used with purpose. Must be a fantastic daily experience to live in.
@@jamieblank1515 I would love to live ever day in this house.
Absolutely Correct. And in my estimation- The Real American Optimism. 🌿🇺🇲🌿
Suspected maintenance issues - keeping leaves from accumulating on roof, maintaining oaks overhanging house 12:02 .. No gutters to clean but narrow overhang lets runoff splatter walls. Home obviously not meant for long cold winters. Nice visual & structural overview. The model near the end of the video simplified roof details. Thanks.
Good to hear that you liked the video so much. Home is indeed not meant for long cold winters, but it is build in Southern California so it never gets cold. That's no issue. The overhanging oaks indeed demand a lot of maintenance, as well as the preservation of the wood. But it's worth the efford to live in such a beautifull house.
Thank you for your passion for things Lautner and for the detail you put into your videos.
This house is an amazing piece of art designed and built in a time when the codes were in their infancy. I’m SO glad John L could do what he did and be so very creative with such mastery-without the intense restrictions we have today. I envy him-as today this house could not be built.
Between the structural codes requiring either shear walls everywhere (making the home much less transparent) or moment frames instead (very expensive!), the current energy codes (that much glass could not happen anymore unless you used triple-glazed gas-filled glass which would be difficult to make frameless and extremely expensive, even then maybe not without super-insulating the structure (also expensive), and lastly the ecological rules about no building within the driplines of heritage oak trees (which these look like they are), this house would not get a permit.
Which is very sad-it’s obvious it has survived all these years without falling down or breaking from earthquakes, and hasn’t killed any of the trees. We don’t know how it does energy wise with little insulation and single-pane glass, but with that much shade in LA, it’s probably not too bad. Makes you wonder why the codes are so strict..? 🤔
Anyway, I’m glad he could do it in such an unfettered way for all of us to enjoy do many decades later. 😄
Joseph Sanford, Architect
Yes John Lautner lived in a time where he could designed/ build anything he want. today with all those restictions it would have be more difficult. The house is located is southern california so it never gets cold inside, in more colder states the windows need to make of triple glazed glass.
@@SuperJobbel I appreciate your reply. Just so you know, it can get cold in SoCal (that being a relative term-at least colder than other times) thus the installation of a fireplace and a gas furnace. But that is another thing not allowed any more by code-open-throat fireplaces are not allowed anymore to burn wood, and now there’s legislation coming to outlaw any gas-burning appliances, including furnaces. The push is for zero-carbon emissions, aka total electric fuel, which is physically impossible.
I guess my point is that the architecture we all love about this house (and many other architects of this era, including FLW, Neutra, MVDR, even Greene and Greene) gave us very human-supportive designs we find so beautiful today, is absolutely impossible to design and build in the US now. This is why new houses are either so very boxy and sterile, or outlandishly over the top and frightfully expensive. All because of codification brought on by environmental movements and the zeal for public safety.
I saw another comment about the magic of Lautner’s houses being small square footages-that’s a “new” trend now…I think it’s a response not only to the excessive cost to build now, but a desire for our houses to be nurturing homes, instead of inhuman “supportive living units”.
My mission in these comments is to hopefully encourage others to start to innovate ways within the current code atmosphere to bring back the human element in design which is necessary for mental and physical health, as well as challenge all of us to seek ways to build more efficiently and less expensively. Are there solutions with the entire assembly of do-good code creators working against that? I hope so…does anyone know of places/people doing this? 🤔😃
@@josephsanford2154 Hey only today I saw you comment! Thanks for responding to the video. Indeed, we need more current architect who work innovative with small atmospheres in houses. But indeed it's more difficult today to built these due to the strict building codes. Hopefully other get more inspired by your comment.
@@SuperJobbel thanks so much for your reply-I had wondered what you thought about what I said. So now I know. You’re in a unique position to gather people, thoughts, and action from a diverse group of people around the world. Is there any way to know how good design which doesn’t impact the environment negatively is done around the world? How about cost-effective design for real people? You might be able to find out with your channel. ☺️🤔
One of my favourite homes in Los Angeles. Marmol's impeccable restoration still looks good almost 15 years on.
100% agree. And Marmol Radziner is the best company to restore MCM homes.
I love the House. I saw the, Movie A Single Man, and
was amazed at how beautiful the house is.
Nice video, Thank you,
Jeff
All houses by John Lautner are masterpieces. I made this youtube channel to cover each time one house by Lautner in a video. The more you look into the designs the better it becomes. Many Lautner houses are used in movies, like the Elrod house in the James Bond movie ''Diamonds are Forever''
As a woman often I'm disappointed with the cooking facilities, the kitchen doesn't get much focus..But today you/Lautner came through for the cooks and ladies!! 😍
Hahaha... I never saw it that way. But now you said it: indeed most FLW homes have small kitchens, Lautner's homes have larger kitchens.
It feels ridiculous to call this "one of Lautner's most beautiful houses" when everything he made was spectacular, but it's true. This house, in particular, is a lyrical composition, a poem in wood and glass. An amazing balance - like you mention in your video guidance - between a log cabin and an opne air picnic spot in the woods. Rightly takes one's breath away! Thank you for this update!
''A poem in wood and glass'' that's very good way to describe the house! I should have said that in the video ..haha. There are not enough words to describe how great this house is. From each angle the house looks different, like an abstract artwork. It's hard to choose from all designs by Lautner but this one is one of my favorites.
The truth is Lautner designed many different structures and had many different clients of various financial means. Sometimes he didn't build an entire place but did additions. It's a little bit incomplete to think of him as a millionaire only architect. It's too easy to look at his big projects and define Lautner based on just those, but the truth is his creative genius can be found in so called "lesser" works that deserve as much attention and honor. It's only when subsequent property owners come along later and screw up his original work or really bad (read tasteless) clients or contractors who fouled things up that created abortions that would be disowned by Lautner himself. These places might be considered possibly worthy of dismissal.
Your skill in contextualizing the photos through your drawings of floor-plan and elevation really really illustrate what a glorious building this is. Thank you.
Really great to read all the positive comments! It was a challenge for me to explore the complex house, it took a lot of research and time to draw everything. ( I want all the video overviews as complete as possible). So if someone says it was really well illustrated, it was worth all the afford for me. Thanks! More videos about Lautner, FL Wright and Neutra will come up!
I watched "A Single Man" on a streaming service earlier this evening, I then came across to my computer and opened youtube only to have this video at the top of my suggestions.... some serious 'communication' going on I think. Beautiful house and amazing movie.
Yes, google knows what you're watching and what you're interesting it. haha... I knew this house before I saw the movie and its funny to see how the house was used in the movie. It's a little bit different than in reality: the bed on which Colin Firth sleeps was placed in the livingroom and the toilet was filmed in the study room. So the art of moviemaking creates a good illussion.
From the houses by Lautner that I have seen this is my favorite. I'm a cabinet maker and really really like the way he used wood in this house. I also like his combination of the redwood and the bricks, they complement each other and the brick doesn't overpower the wood. It's a perfect balance. The design itself is genius, spectacular but humble at the same time. Nothing goes overboard. Thank you for another great video. 🙂
This house is also one of my favorites. Everything is indeed perfect in balance. For a cabinet maker this house must be truly inspirational. Do you have a website with the carpentry that you make?
@@SuperJobbel No, I'm sort of retired now.
@@peterbockholm3176 Okay enjoying the good life!
Peaceful and humble....but exciting and the eyes is led to the structural overall design that encapsulates the mind yet frees the soul. What a very architecturally uplifting human experience of art and the soul. Marvelous. Thanks for sharing and walking us through the experience of the space and surprisingly to the subtle openness to the soul.
Really great to read that you loved the videos so much. That stimulates me to make more videos. The house is indeed marvellous, peacefull and humble. Check also my video about the Walstrom house , a design with the same feeling: th-cam.com/video/V_fbrNIB4rs/w-d-xo.html
been there, fantastic house , beautiful trees , wonderful colour of wood. strange location . but worth the visit in every way
Fantastic video, as usual.
Thank you! more fantastic tours will come up!
What an extraordinary design. What imagination.
Your ability to contextualize the photos through your floor plan and elevation drawings truly illustrate what a magnificent building this is. Thank you.I am truly impressed by the level of detail and precision in your work. It's clear that you have a deep understanding of architectural design and a keen eye for capturing the essence of a building. Thank you for your exceptional work.
Thank you for your heartwarming comment. The many positive reactions stimulate me to make more videos. I love to make the walkthroughs as complete as possible and giving people the feeling that they have visited the house. While you live in Syria, I live in the Netherlands: thanks to the videos we get the feeling of walking through the homes. More videos will come up soon!
The warm woods always make Lautner’s and FLW’s design’s incredible.
Yes, I also love the red wood in combination with bricks. I also like flag and rockstones. Lautner and Wright are my favorite architects, but I love Neutra andthe Case Study Houses in the 2nd place.
I love it when he took something that was structural and make it into a beautiful part of the design. I would feel very comfortable in this home. As usual good job showing us this great piece of architecture.
Of all Lautner designs this is the one I would like to live in the most. It indeed feels comfortable to live in. The construction becomes part of the design in a brilliant way. I really enjoyed making this video and show everybody the qualities of this house.
My husband and I looked at this gorgeous house when we were searching for a home to buy way back in the '90's. It was not in great shape and was really dark. We loved all the wood and the fact that it was a Lautner. It's in a lovely wooded neighborhood. An actor ended up purchasing it and I believe he did some wonderful restoration, which we would have been unable to afford at the time. It made my heart happy to see it in the movie looking so glorious!
Great story! so bad you couldn't buy it back then. I don't know who owns the house nowadays, but it's beautifully restored in the 2010's.
It's truly an amazing home and would love to built a similar home for myself some day.
It's a small house, but really nice. The windows make it seem larger. It's interesting that Lautner and Wright made so many houses. You would think that architects all want to make big buildings, like skyscrapers or museums.
The best architects are great in designing small houses. I especially like to make videos about the small houses by Wright and Lautner because it shows there talent, even more than the large homes.
The detail is incredible and above nearly any modern design.
Absolutely!
Thanks for the update. It feels fresh, not like a repetitious.
[To be pedantic:
I think "triple beam" would be more accurate description of Lautner's design. "Trellis" is more often used for a secondary or decorative structure. Using the triple beam instead of one larger beam decreases the visual weight of the structure.
Supporting the roof with these beams means that exterior walls can be open with no bearing walls to carry the roof load. "Retaining walls" refers to walls resisting a horizontal load.]
thanks for your advice! It helps me improving the videos, next time I will say triple beam. I'm not a native English speaker, so my knowledge of English words is limited, I was not familliar with the words ''triple beam'' and ''bearing walls'' .
@@SuperJobbel "load-bearing wall" is usually how it's said
Complicated in style for natural, and beautiful setting. Thx, and the movie was interesting too.
Great to hear that you liked the video. This is one of John Lautner's best designs. ' 'A Single Man'' is also one of my favorite movies.
Thank you Sir. I love your presentations of this Master of architecture . I would be so pleased if you did a compilation of his works that appeared in films over the years.
Love from Canada
Funny that you mentioned it: I'm already busy with making a compilation of all the movies with John Lautner houses in it. But like every video: it's a lot of work, so it will take a couple of months before the video is finished. But stay tuned. ..Love from the Netherlands.
@John Lautner Architecture Videos I can't believe what I'm reading, because I have wished for this. It's a fun idea that I will greatly look forward to. Love from the United States.
@@SuperJobbel this will be a great video🙌i am looking forward to it!
Hey I've made the video you asked for, enjoy!:
th-cam.com/video/vaOfBlSk3AY/w-d-xo.html
Jop Cornelis, I have really enjoyed listening to and viewing your description of this beautiful home. Thank you for explaining so well how the building works. I just wish I could live there. My wife & I stayed in Glendale on holiday from England a few years ago with my wifes 'penpal', I just wish I'd known about this house then.
I like to explain the houses as complete as possible, so its really great to hear that you enjoyed the video so much. Your comment stimulatrs me to make more videos. Next time when you in Glendale you definitely should try to visit this house, It sometimes open for public.
An excellent report on an amazing small house.
Thank you! I try to make the videos as good as possible so it's great to hear that someone calls them excellent.
Wonderful Lautner house Thank you
You're welcome. I love this house too, more videos about wonderfull homes will come up.
What a brillaint case study - thanks for the very detailed house tour with photos!
You're welcome! I love to make these overviews as complete and detailed as possible, showing the perfect brilliant designs by Lautner to the world. More videos will come up
Totally agree with your comments about this delicate and light design, the flow of the spaces and the total synergy of this form within the established nature , all while in the middle of a busy and dense suburban landscape . Probably my favourite of his early independent works. I loved the extra detail this time in your presentation, please keep up this excellent and engaging work. well done yet again my friend! G
I will keep up this work. There are so many great houses still to discover and to present, so many videos come up. This houses always needed a second presentation because it's so full of interesting detials. It indeed feels lik a synergy within nature and takes you aways from the busy neighbouring city.
From Syria, I'd like to express my gratitude and hope to have the opportunity to go to the USA to continue my studies. I wish to achieve my dream despite the obstacles I face.
I really hope you will be able to study in the USA. There's so much beautiful archtiecture there. Every person should realise there dreams and go for it! Good luck!
480p? Lautner’s stylistic break from Wright’s exacting stone-and-wood geometries coincides with his transition to concrete as his primary structural material and to the folds of the earth; the concrete ‘shell’ became the metaphor and the medium for man’s flight away from civilization into the shelter of nature.
Yes I agree with you. The mayor difference between Wright and Lautner is that Lautner went many steps further in mixing the interior with exterior and further with imitating the shapes of nature. This indeed coincidented with a more exntesive use of concrete and glass. But keep in mind that Lautner lived a few decades later: in that time it was easier to use concrete and glass on such a scale, than it was back in the days when Wright was designing most of his houses. Had Wright lived later he might use just as much glass and cocnrete as Lautner. Indeed the use of Concrete allowed Lautner to design most of his houses from a ''shell'' .
Less is more. This is a genius house!
Well said! absolutely true
Thank you for the excellent, informative video.
You're welcome! Great to hear you liked it. More videos will come up.
I've had been in this house numerous time as I had known the owner through a friend. This is behind the Verdugo Hills and the location is very pristine.
You're blessed person that you had the privilege to visit the house so often. It's indeed an amazing design on a wonderfull location.
Large roof over hangs are beautiful and protect the doors, windows and siding from rain and moisture damage.
Water is the enemy of buildings. Architects and home builders need to bring back large roof over hangs
Luckily this house is lcoated in Southern California where there is not so much rain. So the wood structure is still in good shape.
Great videos. Really enjoy them.
Thank you! More videos come up.
I'm grateful to the lady that invited me in and gave me 'the tour' of this wonderful house. Mr. Lautner really nailed it here. Couple details - the owner said European master carpenters we're brought in and they spent lots of time sorting through the wood to use only the best pieces. Unfortunately, the fireplace didn't draw very well. Great piece of property with the oak trees but the neighbors are a little too close for my taste...
Great that you actually visited the house. I didn't knew the story of European carpenters and the fireplace, so thank you! Yes the piece of ground is very small, so the neighbours come very close. But on all the pictures the house looks like it's located deep in the forest: great optical illusion.
@@SuperJobbel I guess I really meant to say the neighbors can see into the house too easily for my taste because of the glass. I love the house but when I was there I could see that others could look right in.
A detail I haven't seen mentioned is Lautner used strips of brass between the horizontal wood slats in the walls. This was done where he wanted to have more privacy. He placed it right next to the glass at the point where he wanted the glass to stop but continued on with the brass to maintain the design elements he made.
@@kimballbenson8116 Okay that's a detail that I didn't knew. Thanks!
@@kimballbenson8116 Than the lack of privacy is indeed a bit of problem. Maybe the neighbouring houses were built later, after the Schaffer was completed.
The more times I watch this video of yours, the more I love this house! I want to replicate it in my site but, alas, I lack what comes first :
money...😂
I have the same problem!!!! Hope some day we both live in our own Schaffer Houses!
super tour!!!! thank you so much🙃i love this house too🙃
Thank you! Really wonderfull to read that people like the videos so much. I love these houses and want to show their beauty with the rest of the world. I hope to make videos about all houses bu FL Wright and Lautner, because of each of these houses is full with interesting design details.
John Lautner's work should be better known. The Schaffer house for example was decades ahead of its time. Considerably more than Wrights work that it appears to emulate but significantly surpasses.
Definitely Lautner's work shoud be better known. Hopefully this channel contributes to make him more famous. In some ways it's indeed better than some of FLW designs.
@@SuperJobbel
In my opinion it surpasses any of Wright's usonian houses. I'm an architect. At 72 I can't believe that I'm only belatedly becoming acquainted with John Lautner, largely through your channel. Thank you.
Masterpiece! Would love to see this with a modern take
yes that's interesting to speculate about that. It would be turn out into a great home.
Gorgeous!
This perfectly highlights our high cost living problem of today.
How much would that same house in "new " materials cost today.
We have to go back to building for less.
.....and imagine, they didn't cut down all the trees to build.
Today the house would indeed be much more expensive: partly due to the rising material cost but even more due to rising cost of craftmanship. However, the house would be still less expensive, compared to other designs by Lautner and Wright. Off course: The building costs are multiple times the prefab houses that you see mostly today. ... But I think it's word the costs: quality and price deserve such a price. .
Omg..love it!
thanks for the video
You're welcome!
beautiful
The corregated steel in the bathroom used to be corregated fiberglass patio roofing
Really? That's a story I haven't heard off. Please explain further because its interesting.Did they first had a fiberglass roofing over the garden? Why was it removed? And used for the bathroom? You see its fiberglass and not steel?
All the houses that you portray are gorgeous but most of them will need a professional window cleaner at least once a month because most of the windows are huge and difficult to arrive at. There is a budget right there.
Haha... that's true. It's a detail I didn't notice but your right. :)
You know what JL's homes do to me? I don't like people and I don't like parties, but when I see his delightful creations, I want to have a party in one with lots of people.
Very good way to describe his homes! I do like a party from time to time, but I dont have a Lautner house.
Yup. Agreed.
Gorgeous house... Shame about the neighbours!! Great job as usual!
Thanks! :)
Thanks so much for making these videos. How I can send you interior images of some Lautner houses from my own visits?
Oh thank you! Great which houses have you visited? Also houses were I havent made any videos of? I'm excited . You can sen them to ruudswolfs@gmail.com. Thank you very very much! :)
I really hope that this house and the rest of them have protected status so that they are not destroyed by a generic Home Depot renovations--all the wood painted white, kitchen and bath cabinets destroyed, etc.
Unfortunately not many Lautner homes have a protective status.... This house is one of the few that is 100% original, thanks to the owners who carefully maintaining this masterpiece. With making these videos I hope to bring more attention to these wonderful homes: hopefully many other Lautner homes are restored the way this house looks.
@@SuperJobbel thank-you and the house is gorgeous-excellent video.
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I wonder how many times a tree branch has crashed into the roof.
Haha.... that's a question that didn't came up in my mind... but you're right: it's interesting to think about that.
Heavens, but that is a beautiful design. Tile, however, would be preferential to that corrugated steel. But, still: Wow !!!
I Agree with you: I love everything about this house, except the corrugated steel in the bathroom. Still I wouldn't remove it, if I owned the house because i like keeping the entire house original.
Eddie schaffer
Is the house yours? Is it in your family?
Pgachtig gemaakt.
Dank je wel!
Not a fan of carports which offer no security. Plus I need a garage to hold all my tools and putter around in, changing the oil on the car, a small wood shop. No, a carport is for an apartment building.
FLW and J.Lautner loved carports because they provided more transparency to the design, instead of the enclosed garage which was described by FLW as a "dark box " . In the dry sunny climate of California it's not strictly needed to have a garage and the shelter of the carport is enough to protect your car from the burning sun. Still, I agree with you that a garage is more practical and safer. You can always turn a carport into a garage by placing walls in it.
Every home and business should install a rain water collection and storage system along with solar panels.
Even in areas where rain is infrequent it is crazy to waste the little rain that does fall and waste it.
We need to stop planting green lawns and switch to local native plantings around homes.
It is crazy to plant lawns and build golf courses in dry desert areas. We waste too much water and electricity.
the future is electric. Wind and solar energy along with electric vehicles are the future. Stop using fossil fuels. There is a climate crisis.
100% agree with you. I live in the Netherlands where a lot of homes have those features already.
Love the updated version.... I'm still astounded by all the details of construction. Having this amount of privacy, with all the walls of glass, in that part of LA.... is quite an accomplishment. Is the fireplace functional?
I guess the fireplace still is functional, but I don't know for sure. The house is a masterpiece: its so full of great details that I had to make 2nd video about it. It's my dreamhouse for sure.