Title & Author:

Easy Living / [presented by] Mark Mack (Mark Mack Architects).

Publication:

London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (41 minutes)) : sound, color

Notes:
Mark Mack, 1996, In His Studio -- Baum Residence, Berkeley, California 1988 -- Summer's Residence. Elevation -- Summer's Residence. Watercolour Elevation -- Summer's Residence. Airbrush Plan & Elevation -- Summer's Residence. Plan -- Summer's Residence. Section -- Boise Art Museum, Idaho, 1988. (With Trout Architects). Renderings, Front & Back -- Adelman Residence, Santa Monica, California -- Fukuoka Housing, Japan, 1989. Axonometric, Courtyard House -- Boise Art Museum. Gallery -- Venice Canal Towpath Onto Which Mack Studio Backs -- Entrance To Mack Studio -- Stremmel Residence, Reno, Nevada -- Fukuoka Housing, Japan, 1989. Axonometric, Courtyard House -- Fukuoka Housing, Japan, 1989. Junction Of 2 Blocks -- Fukuoka Housing, Japan, 1989. Lobby -- Housing In Vienna, Austria -- Housing In Conegliano, Italy, 1995-1998.

Summary:

Considering himself a Californian architect, the Austrian-born Mark Mack has lived and practised in Los Angeles since 1975, having worked previously with Hans Hollein, Haus-Rucker-Co and Emilio Ambasz, and having come under the spell of Luis Barragan's work. Other influences have been Adolf Loos while he was a student in Vienna, and Irving Gill and Rudolf Schindler when he came to California. His first houses, built in the Napa Valley, allowed him to explore the characteristics of the Californian house, out of which certain principles have come to bear in most of his subsequent architecture - the relationship between architecture; landscape and climate; the integration of the outdoor and indoor; the separation of public and private space; the recognition of the needs of different life-styles and the contrast between man-made structures and Nature -- leading to more open and free environment, albeit low-rise, high density. For him architecture is not an art but "a way of artfully building, putting things together, composing them". He sees art "in the Loosian sense, as a contraction to architecture".

Subject:

Architectural design United States.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design architectural États-Unis.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architectural design.
Architecture, Modern.
United States.

Added entries:

Mack, Mark, narrator.