i love this more than anything.

The Sheats/Goldstein Residence

Ignore this awful music and dig it. When I toured this house it was maybe on of my favorite days ever? Whaaaaaa?

Case Study House #22

I would give just about anything for a tour.

i want to go to Wayne's house

Last month, the internet noticed that you could see Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne taking a bath outside his Oklahoma City house on Google Street View. As it turns out, that particular burst of random weirdness had nothing on the inside of the house. In fact, Coyne's house looks something like the future-- the way the people who drew the covers of 1950s sci-fi paperbacks would've imagined it.

via Pitchfork via Fitsimmons Architecture

LED

The YAS Hotel in Abu Dhabi was recently completed, and its curvilinear grid-shell which is covered with over 5,300 diamond-shaped steel panels, containing nearly 5000 LED fixtures is being announced as the world’s largest LED project controlled through RDM (Remote Device Management).


sadly i will never get to see this fantastic hotel in real life since i have no plans to visit Abu Dhabi. Ever.
I say build one of these bad boys in Vegas where it clearly belongs.

read more @ the contemporist

covetous

Dupli.Casa House, Germanywith by J.MAYER H. Architects

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lautner

the hammer museum had an exhibit that ended yesterday about one of my favorite architects John Lautner.

tickets to tour the above Sheats/Goldstein house sold out weeks ago much to my disappointment.

as we arrived at the museum there were signs on the doors that read "limited tickets available for the Sheats/Goldstein house tour." my heart lept. i was going to Jackie Treehorn's house.

sadly, my mother the extreme photographer nor i had a camera. the above photos were taken with my blackberry.

no words can describe how awesome the experience of being there was.

Visual Acoustics

Yesterday I saw a documentary at the LA Film Festival.

Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman.

Even if modern architecture isn't your thing, this well-made film could hold your attention. Loving the work of Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, and Frank Llyod Wright might make you enjoy it more though. This is crazy-embarassing, but more than once I was moved to tears by the beauty of the photographs, some which I've seen a million times others that I had never seen before.

Trollbäck + Company did some great graphics, Dustin Hoffman narrates and Mr. Shulman turned out to be a very lively, hilariously sarcastic, but extremely likable dude. Huge surprise. For some reason I was expecting him to be a crotchedy bitter old man.

The director, Eric Bricker did a Q & A after the film but guess who got up and left because she was going to a Dodger game? One of the biggest mistakes of my life. F U Dodgers.

According to these pictures on WireImage the genius himself was in the audience (sitting very close to where I was). I hate myself for missing that. Hopefully they'll include it on the DVD?

Julius Shulman

One more reason to love the L.A. Film Festival.

The world premiere of Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman

Narrated by Dustin Hoffman

Visual Acoustics explores the monumental career of the undisputable master of architectural photography, 97-year-old Julius Shulman. Through the exploration of both Shulman’s art and uniquely individualistic life, Visual Acoustics offers an unforgettable portrait of Modernism’s most eloquent ambassador.

Populating his photos with human models and striking landscapes, he combines the organic with the synthetic, melding nature with revolutionary urban design.

The resulting images helped to shape the careers of some of the greatest architects of the 20th Century, with Shulman documenting the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, Rudolph Schindler, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner, and many others.

Taking its aesthetic cues from Shulman’s own sensual and nuanced photography, the film’s narrative is built from a blend of Julius’ own images as well as in interviews with architect Frank Gehry, Academy Award - nominated cinematographer Dante Spinotti, actress Kelly Lynch, designer Tom Ford, artist Ed Ruscha, publisher Benedikt Taschen, and a host of others.

Julius Shulman is still photographing Los Angeles at 97 years old.

Here's the link to the LA Film Fest site where I am going right now to buy my ticket.

You can watch the trailer there too, it's kind of beautiful. I'm not even pms-ing and i maybe got a little misty-eyed.

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world I feel like I can't take it, like my heart's going to cave in. ~ Ricky Fitts

PreFabulous

(that was a super gay blog title.)

Inhabitant has a post about this sexy new prefab house that recently went up in Napa. I want it.

Or at least I want to go to it...and it looks like I can.

The ‘Napa Prefab’ is open for tours for prefab enthusiasts or prospective prefab homeowners. It’s also available as a private vacation rental, or for commercial photo, movie, and production shoots. Guided tours include a Q&A with the homeowners/builders who, although not a distributor of the LV, do offer consulting services (complete with a regional wine tasting) to people interested in the prefab construction process.

in my dream-fantasy fake-life I will TOTALLY rent this place out for the weekend.

Right On.

Julius Shulman's Los Angeles

Julius Schulman is a brilliant architectural photographer best known for his picture of Case Study House #22. ------>

There is an exhibition at the central library downtown where you can see over 150 rarely seen photos.

This is pretty cool too...

"The exhibition will also include renderings of current urban developments underway, so that visitors can compare Shulman’s historic photographic perspectives with images of Los Angeles’ future. "

It runs through January 20, so check it.

The central library is quite magical too.

http://www.lapl.org/events/shulman/