The Hammer Museum, with the Getty Research Institute, will present two symposiums on September 19 and 20, and a panel discussion on September 23. According to the Hammer:<\/p>\n
Symposium: Against Reason
\nJohn Lautner and Postwar Architecture
\nIn 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\u2019s original clients and colleagues will
\ndiscuss 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.<\/p>\n
Friday, September 19
\nHammer Museum, Billy Wilder Theater
\nTour of John Lautner exhibition \u2014 6pm
\nConversation: Contemporary Anti-Rationalist Architects \u2014 7:30pm<\/p>\n
Saturday, September 20
\nThe Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
\nSymposium 10am \u2014 5pm
\nFree-Form Living: A Conversation with the Clients and
\nColleagues of John Lautner \u2014 8pm<\/p>\n
Tuesday Sep 23, 7pm
\nPanel Discussion: Architecture and Seduction
\nBachelor Pads and Sex Machines
\nModerated by Norman Millar, AIA Director of the Woodbury University School of Architecture.<\/p>\n
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