AKA: Chemosphere House, Los Angeles, CA; Taschen, Benedikt and Angelika, House, Los Angeles, CA
Structure Type: built works - dwellings - houses
Designers: Arahuete, Helena, Architect (firm); de la Vaux, John, Building Contractor (firm); Escher GuneWardena Architecture (firm); Lautner, John E., Architect (firm); Helena Arahuete (architect); John de la Vaux (building contractor); Frank Escher (architect); Ravi GuneWardena (architect); John Edward Lautner Jr. (architect)
Dates: constructed 1960
1 story, total floor area: 2,208 sq. ft.
Architect John Lautner designed this residence for the aerospace engineer, Leonard Malin, his wife and four children. In order to supervise the building process, Malin took a year's leave from work. John de la Vaux served as the Building Contractor for this faceted, circular dwelling mounted on a 27-foot-high, reinforced concrete pole. Lautner worked previously with de la Vaux on his Carling House (1947).
Access to the house, occupying a very steep hillside, was gained by a funicular railroad.
German publishers, Benedikt and Angelika Taschen, renovated the Malin House in the 1990s. Helena Arahuete, head of Lautner's successor firm, worked on the renovation.
PCAD id: 1818