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• Title:The fantastic seashell of the mind : the architecture of Mark Mills / Janey Bennett.
  
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• Author/Creator:Bennett, Janey, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Mills, Mark, 1921-2007. Works. Selections.
  
• Published/Created:[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2017]
  ©2017
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA737.M525 A4 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mills, Mark, 1921-2007.--Catalogs.
  Architects--United States--Catalogs.
  Architecture, Domestic--United States--History--20th century.
  
• Genre/Form: Catalogs.
  
• Edition:First editon.
  
• Description:195 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 29 cm
  
• Summary:Mark Mills was a visionary architect, a Frank Lloyd Wright apprentice whose innovative designs grow beyond Wright's work to uniquely blend structural principles and the organic forms of seashells. When he heard Wright say that seashells are Nature's perfect architecture, Mark made that idea the foundation of his life's work. As seashells change their forms to meet the needs of their inhabitants, so Mark adapted structural roof systems to shelter his clients, and he made them spectacularly beautiful. If the sky is Nature's umbrella above us, Mills's ceilings were the umbrella over his clients' lives in their homes. The ceiling revealed the skeleton of the building, exposed, visible from every part of the interior, since the interior walls were partitions that did not interrupt the view of the ceiling system. He used to joke (joking but not kidding) that he put so much thought and care into his roofs because the clients couldn't hang their knick-knacks on it and wreck its design. From any place within Mark's houses, there is a sense of being under the entire shell of the roof. We may be in the living room, but we are also in the entire house at all times.
  
• ISBN:9781939621399 hardcover
  1939621399 hardcover
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: Taliesin Days
  Breakage of Things
  Exiled from Paradise
  Moving On
  California
  Mark's Seashells
  Materials and Elements
  Desert Masonry
  Redwood Bridge Beams
  Dentils
  Light
  Coloring the Light
  Revealing the Bones of a House
  Circles
  Creativity and Play
  A-Frame
  Son of the A-Frame
  Tipped Gable
  Very Tipped Gable
  Most Circular House
  Unleashed Imagination
  Circles on Circles
  When an A-Frame Meets a Dome
  Hanging Over the Forest
  Fantastic Sea-Traveler
  Sea Creature Houses
  Sea Creature 1 Fan Shell
  Sea Creature 2 Chiton
  Sea Creature 3 Argonata.