* John Lautner, internationally famous modern architect

The scenes in Jackie Treehorn's house were shot in the Sheats Goldstein Residence, designed by John Lautner and built in 1963 in the Hollywood Hills.

Desert Hot Springs is the home of the Desert Hot Springs Hotel, designed by architect John Lautner.

The revival in the late 90s of mid-century modernism has given new cachet to his work, as with homes and public structures built by the architects John Lautner and Rudolf Schindler.

The origin of the name Googie dates to 1949, when architect John Lautner designed the West Hollywood coffee shop, Googies, which had distinct architectural characteristics.

Along with McAllister, the prolific Googie architects included John Lautner, Douglas Honnold and the team of Louis Armet and Eldon Davis of Armet & Davis firm, which they founded in 1947.

* The Chemosphere, a house designed by American architect John Lautner, completed in the Hollywood Hills, California.

Architects such as Richard Neutra, Pierre Koenig, John Lautner and Frank Lloyd Wright all have important works in the city.

* John Lautner

John Edward Lautner ( July 16, 1911 – October 24, 1994 ) was an influential American architect whose work in Southern California combined progressive engineering with humane design and dramatic space-age flair.

His father, John Edward Lautner, who migrated from Germany ca.

Lautner and Gilman married in 1948 and MaryBud returned to Marquette with their four children, daughters Karol Lautner ( b. 1938 ), Mary Beecher Lautner ( b. California, 1944 ), Judith Munroe Lautner ( b. California, 1946 ) and son Michael John Lautner ( b. Astor Farm, Indio, California, 1942-d. California, 2005 ).

In recent years Lautner's work has undergone a significant critical reappraisal with the 1999 publication of Alan Hess and Alan Weintraub's " The Architecture of John Lautner " ( Rizzoli ), and a 2008 exhibit at the Hammer Museum curated by architect Frank Escher and architectural historian Nicholas Olsberg.

In 2009 Lautner was the subject of a documentary feature film direct by Murray Grigor, Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner.

Another key characteristic of Lautner's architecture is his heterogeneous approach, not only in his overall concepts — each Lautner building is a unique design solution — but also in his use of materials, as Jean-Louis Cohen notes in his essay " John Lautner's Luxuriant Tectonics ":

In 2009 the Googie Company released the documentary feature film Infinite Space: The Architecture of John Lautner, directed by Murray Grigor.

It features extensive contemporary and archival images of many of Lautner's key buildings ( most of which are not open to the public ), excerpts from Lautner's 1986 oral history recordings, interviews with Lautner's family, colleagues and clients, Lautner archivist Frank Escher and longtime Lautner fan Frank Gehry, as well as a moving on-site reunion of the three surviving principals who built the Chemosphere — Lautner's assistant Guy Zebert, original owner Leonard Malin, and builder John de la Vaux ( who was 95 years old at the time of filming ).

Lautner's legacy is now curated and perpetuated by the non-profit John Lautner Foundation.

As a young man, Nobel studied with chemist Nikolai Zinin ; then, in 1850, went to Paris to further the work ; and, at 18, he went to the United States for four years to study chemistry, collaborating for a short period under inventor John Ericsson, who designed the American Civil War ironclad USS Monitor.

A photograph from Wallace's autobiography shows the building Wallace and his brother John designed and built for the Mechanics ' Institute of Neath.

The original Dartmouth BASIC was designed in 1964 by John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, USA to provide computer access to non-science students.

The original BASIC language was designed in 1964 by John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz and implemented by a team of Dartmouth students under their direction.

The Crawford rule, named after John R. Crawford, is designed to make match play more equitable for the player in the lead.

Sir Robert Gordon, a younger son of the 3rd Earl of Aberdeen, acquired the lease in 1830 and made major alterations to the castle, with baronial-style extensions designed by John Smith of Aberdeen.

The Duveen Gallery, sited to the west of the Egyptian, Greek & Assyrian sculpture galleries, was designed to house the Elgin Marbles by the American Beaux-Arts architect John Russell Pope.

Bodmin County Lunatic Asylum was designed by John Foulston and afterwards George Wightwick.

The campaign was designed by John, who was the fulcrum of the alliances ; his plan being to draw the French away from Paris southward against himself and keep him occupied, while the main army, under Emperor Otto IV, marched on Paris from the north.

The remaining larger portion, designed by Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates, was built in 1973.

* The Mabel McDowell School opened in 1960 and was designed by John Carl Warnecke early in his career using his " early comprehensive diverse approach.

A great deal of emphasis is placed on his origins on the planet Krypton with exotic crystalline sets designed by John Barry, effectively giving Superman a third persona as Kal-El.

It was then analyzed by researchers in the company, and signal processing expert John Platt designed an improved version of the algorithm.

Marija na Škrilinama in the Istrian town of Beram ( 1471 ), painted by Vincent of Kastav ; the painting in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje in Istria by John of Kastav ( 1490 ); and woodcuts designed in the early 1520s by Hans Holbein the Younger and executed by Hans Lützelburger ( published 1538 ).

In order to bring the car more " in house " and lessening partnership with English firms, Ford Advanced Vehicles was sold to John Wyer and the new car was designed by Ford's studios and produced by Ford's subsidiary Kar Kraft under Ed Hull.

* 1806 – John A. Roebling, German-American engineer, designed the Brooklyn Bridge ( d. 1869 )

John of Gaunt spent lavishly in the late 14th century, turning the medieval castle into a palace fortress designed in the latest perpendicular style.

The outer bailey wall, long and relatively low, was mainly built by King John ; it has numerous buttresses but only a few towers, being designed to be primarily defended by the water system of the Great Mere and Lower Pool.

John began building at Kenilworth between 1373 and 1380 in a style designed to reinforce his royal claims in Iberia.

Therefore, its chief designer, Dr. John Pinkerton, designed the machine to have multiple input / output buffers.

< tt > MMIX </ tt > ( pronounced em-mix ) is a 64-bit RISC architecture designed by Donald Knuth, with significant contributions by John L. Hennessy ( who contributed to the design of the MIPS architecture ) and Richard L. Sites ( who was an architect of the Alpha architecture ).

The monument, which was designed and sculpted by Pierre-Étienne Monnot, features the pope seated upon the throne above a sarcophagus with a base-relief showing the liberation of Vienna from the Turks by John III Sobieski, flanked by two allegorical figures representing Faith and Fortitude.

The level and scenarios were designed by American McGee, Sandy Petersen, John Romero and Tim Willits.

It was directed by Derek Goldby and designed by Desmond Heeley and starred Paul Hecht as the Player, Brian Murray as Rosencrantz and John Wood as Guildenstern.

) Also in the Thirties, RCA sold the modernistic RCA Victor M Special, a polished aluminum portable record player designed by John Vassos.