Editorial Review:Product Description:If you design some of the most stylish and beautiful modern houses in the Los Angeles area, including many for celebrity clients, how do you ensure that the projects are built to the standards you, and your patrons, demand? If you’re the highly sought-after firm of Marmol Radziner + Associates, you do what an increasing number of practices are doing: become your own contractor and build your projects with the same rigor and beauty with which they were designed, and, in the process, remake your firm into one of the most visible and successful design-build firms in the country.
Praised as 'modernist savants' by The New York Times, Marmol Radziner + Associates have redefined the indoor-outdoor California lifestyle made famous by legendary mid-century modernists such as Richard Neutra and Albert Frey. Their multifaceted projects include not only residential, commercial, and institutional buildings but also mid-century modern home restorations, furniture, and prefab home manufacturing. Whether building a Hollywood hideaway that floats ethereally over a lush garden or a childcare center for LAX airport employees, each project embodies the philosophy of the firm by integrating finely crafted details with technically inventive modern spaces. Marmol Radziner + Associates explains in detail how this pioneering design-build firm—one of the few led by architects—has managed to integrate the related work of building—installation, construction, and fabrication—into one seamless design process. Architects Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner give an open and honest account of the inner workings of their award-winning firm. Their personal perspectives combined with interviews with employees, clients, and collaborators highlight the synergistic nature of their work. This unique monograph takes the reader from the early stages of conceptual design all the way through construction with special attention focused on their innovative solutions to a variety of on-site challenges.
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Good Insight Into Architects Design
First off I have become a major Marmol Radziner fan ever since I saw pictures of their Desert House - steel frame, floor to ceiling glass walls, modern design, contemporary furniture with a mid-century modern feel.
This book gives some insight into Leo Marmol and Ron Radziner's philosophy, their architecture, design and construction company. The book covers some of their key projects including the restoration of Richard Neutra's fabulous Kaufmann House all the way through to the their incredible Desert House. The book also covers their latest entry into the high end prefab space and their furniture designs. I was somewhat disappointed with the photos in the book. They were not very high quality and they are the same photos you'll find on the web including on their site. In addition, the sparse floor plan drawings were completely useless - very basic (no details at all) and were so tiny that you need a magnifying glass just to look at them. I wished they'd include more on the prefab stuff but you can get more details on the prefab stuff at their web site. All in all a pretty good read and some decent pictures from these two very talented architects of modern design.
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..a great addition to your modern architecture library...
A wonderful collection of work from this young, energetic firm. The design/build aspect of their work in particular, is intriguing for those of us in the design community who struggle with the dance of getting our design initiatives realized. This monograph demonstrates that a single vision shared by the persons responsible for the design and constuction can yield special results. The work is "modern" in the fact that it belongs in the time in which is created. The detail is crisp and the conceptual rigor of the design process is evident.