Ampitheater House, Los Angeles, CA (1950)

Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses

Designers: Lautner, John E., Architect (firm); John Edward Lautner Jr. (architect)

Dates: constructed 1950

Los Angeles, CA
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Though more open than any of Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses, the Ampitheater House did resemble the master's 1930s work.

Lautner oriented the living areas of the house to the southeast to enable passive solar heating.

PCAD id: 10180

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