Usually we experience architecture in the form of still photos, unless we're lucky enough to visit a site in person. Photos are ghosts of the real experience. They are static, lifeless, and often tell lies. Movies come closer to simulating the actual experience of architecture. As the camera pans we get a three dimensional sense of space. It is still not equivalent to the real thing. It lacks smell, texture, and the volition to explore. Movies are more of a "through the peephole" type of experience: limited in scope and participation. Nevertheless, it's fun to see great spaces spring to life in cinematic scope.
I was recently surprised by a rich sample of architecture in Gone Girl, the new Ben Affleck movie. A secondary, but important character, Desi (played by Neil Patrick Harris) owns a lake house that is central to the plot. The lake house, featured in several extended scenes, is Frank Lloyd Wright on steroids. It is, I think, one of E. Fay Jones' inimitable works. However, I've been wrong about Jones attributions in the past and I can't find pictures of the "lake house" in my library or on the web. If any reader knows E. Fay Jones' work well enough to ID the Gone Girl lake house, please leave a comment.
In the meantime, I will say that by the time the house popped up in the movie I was sufficiently disengaged from the plot to thoroughly enjoy the architectural relief. However, movie critics gave Gone Girl good reviews. So don't be turned away from the movie because I got distracted. And in lieu of pictures of this specific house, here are a few examples of E. Fay Jones' work culled from the internet.
P.S. In the process of doing my internet search for the E. Fay Jones house in question, I ran across a link to my blog and it's misidentification of a church in Nebraska that looks like Jones' work, but is not. Take that as a warning to the wise that you can't trust everything you see on the web... even if it comes from this blog! Read my original Jones comments and reader comments at
A Religious Experience on Interstate 80.
From what I was able to find, this is the 2005 Southeast Missouri Residence by Maurice Jennings and Walter Jennings Architects, a continuation of Fay Jones' firm after his death in 2004.
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I believe you are correct, Andrew. I checked out the web site for Jennings; the firm does beautiful work in the spirit of Fay Jones. Certainly the location is right. (Most of the movie was shot in southeastern Misssouri.) Thank you for the tip!
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I watched gone girl for the first time last night, and I too thought for sure E Fay Jones would be attributed. My husband and I were married at Thorncrown in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Thanks for clarifying the answer to my question.
ReplyDeleteI worked in the office of E. Fay Jones from 1975-1978, while in architecture school at the University of Arkansas, and while the house in "Gone Girl" was very reminiscent of Mr. Jones work, there are some details and materials used in that house that just do not show up in Mr. Jones work, at least not while I was in the office. Maurice Jennings and John Womack, were the two Jones associates that were in the office at that time and I was fortunate to get to work on the Edmondson, Hotz and Alexander houses, as well as the very beginnings of Thorncrown Chaple in late 1978. I learned so much while in the office and can still see the legacy of Mr. Jones work in my own.
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