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

Format:

Sound recording

Contributor:

Mack, Mark, narrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design--United States.

Architectural design.

Architecture, Modern--20th century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 audio file (41 minutes)).

Place of Publication:

London, England: Pidgeon Digital, 1997.

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".

Contents:

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. Junction Of 2 Blocks

Fukuoka Housing, Japan, 1989. Lobby

Housing In Vienna, Austria

Housing In Conegliano, Italy, 1995-1998.

Notes:

Title from publisher's website (viewed April 29, 2021).

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.