Your membership in the Foundation gives you certain
privileges. More than that, though, it gives the Foundation the
means to
present educational events, to assist students and others in
learning about
Lautner's
work, to help preserve Lautner's work and to assist owners in
maintaining and remodeling Lautner buildings.
Membership levels
NEW: Memberships are now processed through our account
with regonline.com. This change gives you the
option to renew automatically (or not, in which case you will
be sent a reminder about a month before your membership expires),
and when the Foundation hosts future events, members in the
regonline system will automatically be given a discount for
the event.
| Category |
Yearly Cost
|
Benefits |
| Student |
30.00
|
Discounts on items for sale, events |
| Individual |
50.00
|
Newsletter, discounts |
| Couple |
85.00
|
Newsletter, discounts |
| Patron |
75.00
|
Newsletter, discounts, gift item |
| Founder |
300.00
|
Newsletter, discounts, gift item, one event or tour |
| Lifetime member |
1000.00
|
Newsletter, discounts, gift item, one event/year (when offered) |
Sign up online (-->) or print out the membership
form, fill it in, and send it in with your check.
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The Foundation was formed
- To further the understanding of John Lautner's architecture
and his principles.
- To maintain and operate the professional and personal archives of John Lautner.
- To provide a center for scholars, architects, and visitors interested
in the work of John Lautner, and to establish ongoing communication
for all individuals interested in the architecture of John Lautner.
- To make available material from the archives of John Lautner
for exhibitions, publications, educational events such as, but
not limited to, lectures, seminars, and workshops.
- To serve as a respository of resources for Lautner
homeowners, and, where possible, to provide support in the preservation
and maintenance of Lautner buildings.
- To obtain funding to support these goals.
While we seek grants and other support from government and educational
institutions, this type funding is for specific projects and
can
rarely be used for the regular expenses of the Foundation. For
mailing and other clerical costs, for the expenses involved
in hosting an event, for preservation activities, we must rely
on limited archive fees, gifts, and memberships. See below# for
a description of how the Foundation operates. |
Bachelor residence, Malibu
photo by Bette Cohen
Judy Lautner outside Hope residence
photo by Elaine Vigneault
Guest during Sheats-Goldstein tour
photo by David Parker
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Donations! Donations of any amount are welcome any time. How the Foundation operates
The Foundation is a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization. The Foundation
derives income from paid archival research (income reduced now that
the archive is being handled by the Getty), from memberships, donations,
event tickets, and grants. It pays for event costs,
telephone, postage, web hosting, legal and other clerical costs, preservation
activities, and incidental expenses. The Foundation's board of directors is a "working board". All
volunteers, the board members do almost all of the work required to keep
the organization running. To assure competent reporting of income and
expenses, the Foundation employs a part-time bookkeeper. From time to
time, support help is paid by the hour to respond to requests for materials,
to copy, mail, or do other clerical work. On a contract basis, the Foundation
occasionally engages legal assistance. The Foundation does
not have an office. Work is done from the various offices and homes
run by individual board members,
in between and beyond normal working hours. No glitzy chrome desks, no glass-walled offices, no air-conditioned space-aged
copy room, no orderly file system, mega-scanners. No director of archival
materials, no legal office. It's a shoe-string operation run by dedicated
professionals in their "spare time". The Foundation could use your help. |