los angeles food the brutalist cuisine manifesto by carsten höller photography by GIANNI OPRANDI THE SHEATS GOLDSTEIN RESIDENCE DESIGNED BY JOHN LAUTNER, 1963 IN 1972, JAMES GOLDSTEIN BOUGHT THE SHEATS RESIDENCE, THE LA MASTERPIECE BY ARCHITECT JOHN LAUTNER [1911–1994], BUILT IN 1963 IN BEVERLY CREST. SUBSEQUENTLY, HE WORKED WITH LAUTNER, FOR OVER 30 YEARS TO REFINE AND ADAPT THE HOUSE, AND TO REALIZE THEIR SHARED VISION. RECENTLY, GOLDSTEIN PROMISED TO DONATE THE HOUSE AND ALL HIS ART COLLECTION TO LACMA, WHICH IS DEVELOPING ARCHITECTURAL SITES DEDICATED TO IMMERSIVE ART ARCHITECTURE. 1. Brutalist Cuisine is a dogma kitchen where certain rules apply. 2. The main rule is the following: ingredients are used alone for a certain dish; only water may be added [in Radical Brutalist Cuisine, even the water is extracted from the ingredient, e.g., by distillation or centrifugation]. 2a. An example: instead of Duck with Orange Sauce, Duck with Duck Sauce is prepared….