The Contrabulous Fabtraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel

"'I thought it was very difficult,' Olsberg says. 'The work had been misrepresented for so long, as sensational Space Age-ism, as Hollywood glamour. It was burdened with all these myths: It was vulgar, it was crass, it was drama, it was spectacle.
"'But it wasn't about that. It was about trying to establish this transcendent relationship between man and his environment,' Olsberg says."

In the Los Angeles Times, Anne-Marie O'Connor assesses the work of architect John Lautner, the subject of a new exhibit at the Hammer Museum.