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Another interview conducted live at the rooftop of The Standard during Postopolis! LA.

We invited Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee (principals at Johnston MarkLee), mostly because I wanted to know more about the practice behind some interesting projects we featured prior to the event: The Hill House, the Sale House,  the Mameg + Maison Martin Margiela store and their Ordos 100 villa, along with the View House in Argentina we featured earlier today.

We asked the usual set of questions, while the sun was going down in LA, and Sharon/Mark answers turned into a interesting conversation. I like Mark’s answer to “What should be the role of architects in contemporary society”: “Architects should be superstars – and solve all problems of the world“. Part of the talk on Social Networking was about Ordos 100 and the network behind this “architectural orgy”.

Mark Lee will be a speaker at CIP Talks 2009.

Feedback and comments are welcome.

© Gustavo Frittegotto

Location: Rosario, Argentina
Architects: Johnston MarkLee & Diego Arraigada Arquitecto
Principals-in-Charge: Mark Lee, Diego Arraigada
Project Architect: Sharon Johnston AIA
Project Team: Juliana Esposito, Jeff Adams, Pablo Gamba, Nazarena Infante, Nadia Carassai, Anne Rosenberg, Anton Schneider
Project: 2004-2005
Construction: 2006-2009
Site Area: 2113 m2
Interior Area: 297 m2
Total Built Area: 361 m2
Developer: Lucas Ma (President, Markee LLC)
Structural Engineer: Ing Gonzalo Garibay
General Contractor: MECSA, Ing Gustavo Micheletti
Materials: Exposed Concrete, Anodized Aluminum, Plaster, Polished concrete, Polished Terrazzo, Lapacho Hardwood
Photographs: Gustavo Frittegotto

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Architects: Johnston Marklee & Associates
Location: Beverly Hills, California, USA
Project year: 2007
Project Architects: Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston AIA, Katrin Terstegen
Project team: Albert Chu, Robert Garlipp, Nicholas Hofstede
Client: Sonia Eram (Mameg), Staff USA (Maison Martin Margiela)
Contractor: Lofton Contracting, Inc. (Sherman Oaks, CA)
Structural Engineer: B.W. Smith Structural Engineers (Studio City, CA)
Lighting Consultant: Kaplan Gehring McCarroll Architectural Lighting (Los Angeles, CA)
Electrical Engineer: A&F Consulting Engineers (Reseda, CA)
Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier

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This villa is located in plot #46 of the ORDOS project.

Architects: Johnston Marklee & Associates
Location: Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China
Pincipals in charge: Sharon Johnston AIA, Mark Lee
Project Architect: Anton Schneider
Project team: Owen Merrick, Midori Mizuhara, Jonathan Raz
Design year: 2008
Construction year: 2009
Curator: Ai Weiwei, Beijing, China
Client: Jiang Yuan Water Engineering Ltd, Inner Mongolia, China

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Architects: Johnston Marklee & Associates
Location: Venice, California, USA
Project year: 2004
Project Architects: Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston AIA, Lars Holt, Mark Rea Baker
Project team: Jeff Adams, Diego Arraigada, Michelle Cintron, Daveed Kapoor, Anne Rosenberg, Anton Schneider
Owner: Josh Sale, Peggy Curran
Contractor: Alonzo Construction
Structural Engineer: William Koh & Associates
Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier

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Architects: Johnston Marklee & Associates
Location: Pacific Palisades, California, USA
Project year: 2004
Project Architects: Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston AIA, Jeff Adams, Mark Rea Baker
Project team: Diego Arraigada, Brennan Buck, Michelle Cintron, Daveed Kapoor, Anne Rosenberg, Anton Schneider
Developer: Lucas Ma (President, Markee LLC)
Client: Chan Luu
Contractor: Hinerfeld-Ward, Inc.
Structural Engineer: William Koh & Associates
Lighting Consultant: Dan Weinreber
Landscape: DLush Life LA
Photographs: Eric Staudenmaier

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