#interview #podcast w/ Marc Appleton of Appleton Partners, LLP
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| Marc Appleton |
One of the things that I have been doing during the pandemic opening up are reaching out to different architects and going to their offices to meet in person. And it has been great to see everyone and have a cup of coffee.
I have been visiting a lot of residential architects lately and I have my own projects so this is first in a series on #Houses&Housing that I will be focusing on in the new year.
One of the first architects whose firm I worked at who primarily specialized in Houses is Marc Appleton. I worked for Marc and his then business parner, Ralph Mechur, in the early 90's. I would like to say that everything that I learned the right way is from that office. And it shows with the list of architects who have gone on to start their own firms or have become partners in other firms, I have interviewed and will be interviewing quite a few of them in the coming months.
I went on a mini-vacation to Santa Barbara about a year ago and an architect that I had worked for many years ago in Venice has an office there and in Santa Monica and met him at the office, in his library, to catch up on what has been happening in the last 20 years. We said we would do a podcast together and we finally were able to make that happen in July. However, I had some other podcasts set up, I had a couple of conferences to go to, AIA CRAN Symposium and AIA California MDC (Monterey Design Conference) and it took a little longer.
Links o projects that I worked on in the firm, the photos are copyrighted and cannot be saved, so you will just have to "follow the link" to see them!
Villa Pacifica by Appleton Parthers LLP- Architects
The Glazer Residence by Appleton Partners, LLP-Architects
McEvoy Ranch House by Appleton Partners, LLP-Architects
And then there was some editing to be done as far as technical glitches that happen with Apple Voice Memo... you can not in fact, export if a file is longer than 60 minutes, which as you can see with most architects, especially those of us who have been practicing and have a lot of stories to tell, keeping it to an hour is a very daunting task.
And here is the interview to start the #Houses&Housing #podcast series:
Interview with Marc Appleton, of Appleton Partners LLP Architects
Marc Appleton is the founding Principal of Appleton Partners LLP-Architects, with offices in
Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California. He received a B.A. honors degree in English from
Harvard College (1968) and a Master of Architecture degree from The Yale School of
Architecture (1972.)
His design work has received many awards and has been widely published in Architectural
Digest, Town and Country, Veranda, Luxe and other periodicals. He is one of only four
designers who were consistently named among Architectural Digest's top 100 designers from
1991-2016.
Among the books he has written, published or contributed to are Rexford Newcomb's
Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States (Acanthus,1999), George Washington
Smith: An Architect's Scrapbook (Tailwater, 2001), California Mediterranean (Rizzoli, 2007),
New Classicists (Images, 2008), Casa del Herrero (Rizzoli, 2009), Robert Winter's Myron Hunt
at Occidental College (Tailwater, 2012), the series Master Architects of Southern California
1920-1940 (Tailwater/Angel City Press, 2016-2020) and Ranches: Home on the Range in
California (Rizzoli, 2016) and Lotusland (Rizzoli, 2022.)
Publications from the Publishing Company:
Marc Appleton, Appleton & Associates, Inc. & Appleton Partners LLP – Architects, & Tailwater Press LLC
I. Books by Marc Appleton
• Academy Sant’ Antonio, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2018
• 40 Years - An Architectural Scrapbook, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016
• The Architect’s House, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016
• Ranches, Rizzoli International Publications, 2016
• New Classicists, Images Publishing, 2008
• California Mediterranean, Rizzoli International Publications, 2007
• George Washington Smith: An Architect’s Scrapbook, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2001
II. Edited and/or Published by Marc Appleton / Tailwater Press LLC
• The Steedman Silver, Robert Sweeney, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019
• ICAA Southern California Chapter 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Ed. Marc Appleton, 2014
• Myron Hunt at Occidental College, Robert Winter, Tailwater Press, Inc., 2012
• Africa, Joanna Kerns, The Hollard Foundation, 2011
• Classicist, No. 15, Ed. Marc Appleton, 2018
• Casa del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial, Rizzoli International Publications, 2009
• Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States, Rexford Newcomb. Ed. Marc Appleton, Acanthus Press, 1999
• Santa Barbara Architecture, Wayne McCall. Fifth Impression, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019
• Gordon B. Kaufmann, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016
• Roland E. Coate, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2018
• Wallace E. Neff, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019
• Paul R. Williams, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2020
• Railroad Depots, A Southern Pacific Collection, Jean-Guy Dubé, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2017
III. Prefaces & Forewords by Marc Appleton
• Michael G. Imber Ranches, Villas and Houses, Elizabeth Meredith Dowling, Rizzoli Publications, 2013
• Creating a Home, Kathryn Ireland, Gibbs Smith, 2009
Tailwater Press publications are available at www.tailwaterpress.com
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