HAMMER Views are various exhibition-related programs including lectures, gallery talks, and discussions by Hammer Museum curators and outside experts. Often held inside the galleries, these events explore aspects of the permanent collection as well as works by artists in the temporary exhibition program. The programs are free with Museum admission.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Curators Walkthrough
With co-curators Nicholas Olsberg and Frank Escher. Walkthroughs at 2pm and 4pm.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Panel Discussion
Building Character
A lively panel will discuss high profile Modernist monuments that ultimately become protagonists when used as locations in feature films. Some highlighted architecture will include John Lautner’s “Chemosphere”, which played a starring role in Body Double, Neutra’s Lovell House, featured in L.A. Confidential, and the Marin Country Courthouse, which was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and is a central location in Gattaca. Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
Henry Coombes
Artist Talk
Join Henry Coombes for an evening of in-depth discussion about the Scottish artist’s drawings, paintings and sculptures as well as selected screenings of his amusing, disturbing and surreal films. Coombes explores the tension between instinctual, natural impulses and the constraints of polite society. He presents viewers with seemingly idyllic scenarios that gradually delve deeper into the darker inclinations of human nature.
Hammer Artist Talks include lively Q&A sessions with the audience and offer a great chance to learn more about important emerging artists from the artists themselves. For his first exhibition in an American museum, Coombes’s Laddy and the Lady (2005) and Gralloch (2007) are on view in the Hammer Video Gallery through September 7th.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Shoot On Site: Architecture in Film
A Special Film Series Presented by the UCLA Film & Television Archive
Fall 2008
Whether describing Las Vegas or The Sistine Chapel, the phrase cinematic architecture speaks to the myriad ways that the movies have both inspired architects and altered our perception of built environments. The films in this series, however, find directors engaging with architecture on the architects’ own turf, shooting on site. In the encounter between the director’s and an architect’s vision in these films, location shooting becomes a unique and fascinating process of adaptation and collaboration.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Symposium: Against Reason
John Lautner and Postwar Architecture
In a series of panels and presentations, architects, engineers, and architectural historians will explore the distinctive work of Lautner, and examine the relationship of his non-rational approach to design in the context of post-World War II architecture in the US and abroad. In addition, a panel of leading contemporary architects will describe how their work sets itself against the rationalist and functionalist traditions, and a panel of Lautner’s original clients and colleagues will
discuss the challenges of creating and inhabiting buildings that reshaped the image of modernist architecture in the late 20th century. Presented by The Getty Research Institute and the Hammer Museum. Complete schedule and list of participants to be announced.
Friday, September 19
Hammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
Tour of John Lautner exhibition — 6pm
Conversation: Contemporary Anti-Rationalist Architects — 7:30pm
Saturday, September 20
The Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
Symposium 10am — 5pm
Free-Form Living: A Conversation with the Clients and
Colleagues of John Lautner — 8pm
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Panel Discussion: Architecture and Seduction
Bachelor Pads and Sex Machines
Moderated by Norman Millar, AIA Director of the Woodbury University School of Architecture.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
UCLA Extension Course
Between Architecture and Cinema
Offered in conjunction with the exhibition, this one day course is taught by Jon Yoder, Assistant Professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture and PhD candidate in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. His doctoral dissertation, “Widescreen Architecture: The Immersive Visuality of John Lautner,” takes the ocular-centric projects of the architect as a lens through which to focus on issues of experiential and projective vision.
Co-presented with the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design.
To register please call 310-825-9971 or visit www.uclaextension.edu (course # U2746). Hammer Members receive a special discount.
Between Earth and Heaven : The Architecture of John Lautner
Exhibition Walkthrough
Craig Hodgetts, FAIA, Principal and Co-Founder of Hodgetts + Fung Design and Architecture, is an internationally recognized architect known for his imaginative synthesis of architecture, arts, and technology. He has been called upon to produce full-scale architectural projects, master plans, urban designs, exhibition installations, entertainment venues, and industrial products. In 1969, Hodgetts was a Founding Dean of the California Institute of the Arts and has been a professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design since 1972.
