* Taylor Lautner, Actor, was born and raised in Hudsonville until age 11

Taylor Lautner, who was going to star in the film, is no longer involved in the project.

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.

Lautner was born in Marquette, Michigan in 1911 and was of mixed Austrian and Irish descent.

Lautner left the Fellowship in early 1938 ( primarily because MaryBud was pregnant ) to establish his own architecture practice in Los Angeles, but he told his mentor that, while seeking an independent career, he remained " ready to do anything you or your Fellowship need ".

His first significant solo project was his own Los Angeles home, the Lautner House ( 1939 ), which helped to establish his name — it was the subject of Lautner's first article on his own work, published in the June – July edition of California Arts & Architcture, and it was featured in Home Beautiful where it was lauded by Henry-Russell Hitchcock as " the best house in the United States by an architect under thirty ".

Although the Mauer House was not finished for another five years, the Bell House was quickly completed and it consolidated the earlier success of the Lautner House, earning him wide praise and recognition — the University of Chicago solicited plans and drawings for use as a teaching tool, and it was featured in numerous publications over the next few years including the Los Angeles Times, a three-page spread in the June 1942 issue of Arts and Architecture, the May 1944 issue House and Garden ( which declared it " the model house for California living "), a California Designs feature centering on the Bell and Mauer houses, Architectural Forum, and The Californian.

During 1941 Lautner was again brought in to oversee two more Wright projects that had run into trouble: the redesign of the Ennis House and an ill-fated project for a lavish Malibu residence (" Eaglefeather ") for filmmaker Arch Oboler.

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

Throughout his life Lautner was a passionate admirer of his mentor ( to whom he typically referred as " Mr. Wright ") and he remained a dedicated practitioner of Organic Architecture.

Fortuitously, the pair met through their wives, who knew each other socially — at the time, Lautner was having trouble finding contractors to work on his houses, and de la Vaux, a boat builder, was keen to move into housing construction.

As de La Vaux recounted in the 2009 Lautner documentary, the project was briefly halted by a rare snowstorm that dumped more than six inches of snow on the Hollywood area.

Although best known for his residential commissions, Lautner was also an important contributor to the commercial genre known as Googie architecture.

Another key Lautner work in the Googie genre was Henry's Restaurant ( 1957 ) in Pomona ; its vaulted roof, resembling an inverted boat hull, arched over the interior booths and the large exposed beams ( made from glue-laminated timber ) carried through to the exterior, where they supported a slatted awning that shaded the drive-in area.

The steep hillside site had been given to Malin by his father-in-law, but was considered impossible to build on until Lautner devised his design:

The project had a long and difficult gestation — while it was still being built, original owner Kenneth Reiner ( with whom Lautner collaborated closely ) was bankrupted by the fraudulent dealings of his business partners and he was forced to sell the house.

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.

In April 1933, after reading the autobiography of Frank Lloyd Wright, Vida Lautner approached the architect, who had recently launched his apprenticeship program at Taliesin.

Lautner left the Honnold practice in 1947, primarily because he had begun a relationship with Honnold's wife Elizabeth Gilman ( although the two men reportedly remained friends ).

" When I auditioned for the film, Robert Rodriguez, the director, didn ’ t know that I had my martial arts, and while we there in Austin, TX he saw a DVD of me and asked me to choreograph my own fight scenes ", said Lautner.

Miley Cyrus had auditioned for the film with Lautner, and said it came down to her and another girl who was also auditioning, however Miley began production on Hannah Montana.

Several significant Lautner building have been destroyed or irrevocably altered since their construction, the latest as recently as 2010:

It is ironic that, although famous Lautner works like the Carling and Harpel houses, the Chemosphere and the Sheats Goldstein Residence have become inextricably linked with Los Angeles in the public imagination, Lautner repeatedly expressed his dislike of California.

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 ).

Although his earlier works not surprisingly displayed some of the influence of his mentor, Lautner gradually developed his own style and consciously avoided anything that could be classified as " Wright-influenced ".

Not surprisingly, the Los Angeles building inspector demanded a static load test to prove that it could take the weight of a car — a standoff that mirrored Lautner and Wright's earlier contretemps with skeptical building authorities who demanded load tests on Wright's famous " lotus pad " columns for the Johnson Wax Building.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

At his wife's suggestion de la Vaux approached Lautner and offered to build the Carling House, and they sealed the deal with a handshake.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

The 2000s have also seen many new teen idols emerge from popular feature films such as the casts of the Harry Potter ( e. g. Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson ) and Twilight ( e. g. Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner ) film franchises ; television series such as Glee have also developed stars who are popular among younger viewers.

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

Construction of the highly unusual project saw the initial $ 30, 000 budget blow out to over $ 100, 000, but fortunately Malin and Lautner were able to cover the shortfall by obtaining corporate sponsorship, including funding from the Southern California Gas Company and support from the Chemseal Corporation of America, who provided sealants, plastics and other materials, in return for use of the house for promotions and the right to name the house the " Chemosphere " for advertising purposes.

Lautner also faced opposition from the Los Angeles building certification authorities, who were dismayed by the radical design of the post-stressed concrete ramp, which cantilivers out from the base of the house without any columns supporting it from beneath, and is only four inches thick.

It was then sold to Steve Lowe, who briefly ran it as the Lautner Motel.

Their efforts won the approval of the Lautner Foundation, who sanctioned its renaming as the Hotel Lautner, in honor of its designer.

* the Concannon Residence in Beverly Hills passed through several hands before being purchased by James Goldstein ( owner of the neighbouring Sheats-Goldstein Residence ), who demolished it in 2002 to build an office, nightclub, tennis court, sundeck, plexiglass-bottom infinity pool, and more, that were part of Lautner designed, but never built structures.

Sadly, despite appeals from the Lautner Foundation, who tried to arrange for its purchase or relocation, negotiations with the Mannheim family failed and the house was destroyed in September 2010.

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 ).

He creates two characters, the first one being Sharkboy ( Taylor Lautner ), a young boy who was raised by sharks after losing his Dad at sea.

** Taylor Lautner is now the first seventeen-year-old male celebrity to host SNL ( the other three 17-year-olds who have hosted — The Olsen twins and Lindsay Lohan — were female ).

The music which Lautner has composed for this episode is for the most part `` rather pretty and perfectly banal ''.

Lautner supervised the building of the Sturges House for Wright, but during construction he ran into serious design, cost and construction problems which climaxed with the threat of legal action by the owners, forcing Wright to bring in students from Taliesin to complete repairs.

These photos marked the start of a lifelong association between architect and photographer ; over the next fifty years Shulman logged some 75 assignments on various Lautner projects ( for Lautner and other clients ) and his photos of Lautner's architecture have appeared in at least 275 articles.

John Lautner designed over 200 architectural projects during his career, but many designs for larger buildings were never realised.

As his career developed Lautner increasingly explored the use of concrete and he designed a number of homes for his more affluent clients that featured major structural elements fabricated from reinforced concrete.

Arguably the pinnacle of Lautner's career, the vast ( 25, 000 sq. ft ) " Marbrisa " in Acapulco was built for Mexican supermarket magnate Jeronimo Arango in 1973 and was jointly designed by Lautner and Helena Arahuete during her first year with the firm.

Lautner also designed a home on Malibu's Carbon Beach, at one time owned by David Arquette and Courteney Cox, which sold for US $ 33. 5 million.

It featured interviews with Lautner filmed for the production.

* Responsibility, Infinity, Nature — transcript of 1986 oral history interview with Lautner by Marlene L. Laskey for the UCLA Oral History Program