{"id":122,"date":"2008-07-31T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/?p=122"},"modified":"2008-07-31T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:26:09","slug":"warren-lawson-remembers-john-lautner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Warren Lawson remembers John Lautner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Warren worked for John Lautner from July 1976 until March 1980, during which time he worked on the Segel, Rawlins, Schwimmer, Beyer, Payne and Popeil residences. Warren&#8217;s random memories:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Random memories:<br \/>\n-driving through smog filled L.A. from San Diego, where I was living, to interview with John for work and noticing the contrast between him and his little island of creative energy and the mess of noise and bad air outside;  I remember noticing the humor surrounding him, his laugh and that curious skull hanging on the wall behind him, mocking his bald head; I didn&#8217;t have much to show him, but he responded well to my handmade leather portfolio&#8230;I guess it was enough.<br \/>\n-His truly amazing ability to come up with something totally different, ingenious, and appropriate.  It continues to inspire me.<br \/>\n-His disdain for drafting.<br \/>\n-His method of conceptualizing &#8211; sitting for long stretches, zen-like;  his concept\/idea sketches flowing from that soft pencil in his big hand;  those pieces of paper, tape, erasers, whatever, that he would play with in search of that roof he was looking for.<br \/>\n-Some of the amazingly gifted craftsmen\/builders: Vern Boone and his right hand man, Stan who built the Segel house;  Duncan Stewart and Manuel, who built the Rawlins house.  They deserve a lion&#8217;s share of credit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Warren worked for John Lautner from July 1976 until March 1980, during which time he worked on the Segel, Rawlins, Schwimmer, Beyer, Payne and Popeil residences. Warren&#8217;s random memories: Random memories: -driving through smog filled L.A. from San Diego, where I was living, to interview with John for work and noticing the contrast between him &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/?p=122\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Warren Lawson remembers John Lautner<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-remember-john"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5N0tR-1Y","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnlautner.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}