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  • Porch house in Beverly Hills

  • Art Shed in Los Ángeles

    Art Shed in Los Ángeles

    Art Barn in Los Ángeles (California), EEUU.
    Art Shed in Los Ángeles (California), EEUU.
    Cover - El Croquis 198
    El Croquis 198 – Johnston Marklee ‘ folding time’ – Photo by Jesús Granada

    Work commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:

    El Croquis N. 198 Johnston Marklee 2004-2019

    Based in Los Angeles, Johnston Marklee is an architecture practice founded in 1998 by principals Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. It has been said that the pair is in some ways more closely associated with a group of well-travelled younger architects from around the world than with its home city, and they have often engaged in collaborative projects with other firms in Europe and South America. This monographic issue covers diverse projects by Johnston Marklee from 2005 to the present. It includes an interview with the architects and features notable works such as the Menil Drawing Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, plus a number of private residences.

    Semi-hard cover
    304 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2 Kg

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website
  • Ark house in Los Ángeles by Johnston Marklee

    Ark house in Los Ángeles by Johnston Marklee

    Ark House in Los Ángeles (California), United States by Johnston Marklee architects | © photo Jesús Granada
    Ark House in Los Ángeles (California), United States by Johnston Marklee architects | © photo Jesús Granada
    Cover - El Croquis 198
    El Croquis 198 – Johnston Marklee ‘ folding time’ – Photo by Jesús Granada

    Work commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:

    El Croquis N. 198 Johnston Marklee 2004-2019

    Based in Los Angeles, Johnston Marklee is an architecture practice founded in 1998 by principals Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. It has been said that the pair is in some ways more closely associated with a group of well-travelled younger architects from around the world than with its home city, and they have often engaged in collaborative projects with other firms in Europe and South America. This monographic issue covers diverse projects by Johnston Marklee from 2005 to the present. It includes an interview with the architects and features notable works such as the Menil Drawing Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, plus a number of private residences.

    Semi-hard cover
    304 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2 Kg

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website

  • Hill House in Santa Mónica, Los Ángeles

  • Menil collection drawing center in Houston

    Menil collection drawing center in Houston

    The Menil Drawing Institute (MDI) is sited within the 30 acre campus of The Menil Collection. Positioned in the geographic centre of the campus, the MDI is adjacent to the Cy Twombly Pavilion and nested among the historic bungalows that make up the fabric of this neighbourhood of art. The design of the MDI honours the legacy of intimacy and direct engagement with art that underlies the domestic and institutional character of the Menil Collection campus. Situated in a park-like setting, the new building assumes the scale of both a house and a museum, with a low-lying, elongated profile that blends with the architecture of the historic campus while signalling a new dimension for future growth.

    The MDI is composed of a series of buildings and courtyards unified by a white steel plate roof that hovers over the landscape. The roof defines two entry courtyards to the east and west. A third courtyard within the building links public and private zones of the building and organises circulation between offices and scholar study areas. These courtyards belong to both the park and the building, as thresholds between outdoor and indoor spaces. Within the courtyards, the underlying folds of the roof plane embrace the tree canopies to create a shaded atmosphere around the building. Shedding light, the roof reflects the shadows of the trees and contrasts with the deep grey cedar planks that clad the building.

    Text by Johnston Marklee

    Cover - El Croquis 198
    El Croquis 198 – Johnston Marklee ‘ folding time’ – Photo by Jesús Granada

    Work commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:

    El Croquis N. 198 Johnston Marklee 2004-2019

    Based in Los Angeles, Johnston Marklee is an architecture practice founded in 1998 by principals Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. It has been said that the pair is in some ways more closely associated with a group of well-travelled younger architects from around the world than with its home city, and they have often engaged in collaborative projects with other firms in Europe and South America. This monographic issue covers diverse projects by Johnston Marklee from 2005 to the present. It includes an interview with the architects and features notable works such as the Menil Drawing Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, plus a number of private residences.

    Semi-hard cover
    304 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2 Kg

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website

  • Vault House

    Arch. Dome. Vault House. The terms are relics of architectural history, but in Southern California they are also the building blocks of suburbia, where Mission-style McMansions flaunt endless stucco arches and vaulted foyers. Principals Sharon Johnston, AIA, and Mark Lee of Los Angeles–based Johnston Marklee, however, have updated the archaic and used vaults to rethink a beach house in Oxnard, Calif., just north of Malibu.

    Cover - El Croquis 198
    El Croquis 198 – Johnston Marklee ‘ folding time’ – Photo by Jesús Granada

    Work commissioned by ‘El Croquis’ publishers:

    El Croquis N. 198 Johnston Marklee 2004-2019

    Based in Los Angeles, Johnston Marklee is an architecture practice founded in 1998 by principals Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee. It has been said that the pair is in some ways more closely associated with a group of well-travelled younger architects from around the world than with its home city, and they have often engaged in collaborative projects with other firms in Europe and South America. This monographic issue covers diverse projects by Johnston Marklee from 2005 to the present. It includes an interview with the architects and features notable works such as the Menil Drawing Institute and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, plus a number of private residences.

    Semi-hard cover
    304 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2 Kg

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website

  • Bruther – El Croquis 197

    Bruther – El Croquis 197

    El croquis 197 bruther | Photo cover by Jesús Granada, photographer
    El croquis 197 bruther | Photo cover by Jesús Granada, photographer
    Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers by Bruther architects published in El Croquis 198
    Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers
    New Generation Research Centre by Bruther architects published in El Croquis 198
    New Generation Research Centre

  • Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers

    Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers

    Located on the southern edge of the majestic Cité Universitaire park, the ‘Maison Julie-Victoire Daubié’ is a residence for young researchers. It has the privilege of enriching one of the capital’s most beautiful collections of modern architecture. Building in a park with no apparent boundaries is not exempt of powerful constraints. The presence of the ring road on the edge of the plot makes several protective devices necessary including mezzanine basement access levels &mdashwhich still allow views and light to penetrate&mdash and high-performance soundproofed walls. In addition, the small size of the plot (just 1,000 m2 for a brief that totals 4,629 m2) requires real volumetric compactness. Thank to the way it deals with these data, the building avoids being subjected to the context. It even gives the impression that it opens up to the outside world instead of protecting itself..

    Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers
    ©photo: El Croquis Editorial / Ground floor. Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers by Bruther architects
    Julie-Victoire Daubié Residence for Researchers

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    El Croquis N. 197 Bruther 2012-2018

    The number 197 of El Croquis is dedicated to the París based practice of Bruther, founded by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Therior in 2007, and presents their most relevant projects carried out between 2012 and 2018.

    Semi-hard cover
    278 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2 Kg

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  • New Generation Research Centre

    New Generation Research Centre

    The new “Dôme” is part of the regeneration plan and the first completed building in this context. It is called the “House of Research and of Imagination”. Its designer, The Bruther architects have choosen to use a simple architectural vocabulary to create a a mixused place, accessible for all inhabitants of the city.

    In order to remind the industrial past of the site, they used steel, plastic and contrete, and let the technical facilities visible. The four columns which support the edifice and necessary rooms such as storages and toilets are located at the outer edge. They elevate the whole building above the ground and allowed an extended continuity of the public place below it. The facades can be maid of glass because they are unconstrained by load-bearing considerations. The layout for all floors is fluent and open, without any barriers. Each storey has a double floor height and mezzanines that do not depend on the structure and can be moved. This mixused floors can host exhibitions, workshops and offices.

    On the last floor we can found a terrasse which have a panoramic view on the city and the “Dôme” which gave its name to the building. This room can host events and, as the other part of the complex, is a mixused space.

    New Generation Research Centre
    ©photo: el Croquis Editorial
    New Generation Research Centre

    Complete work available at:

    El Croquis N. 197 Bruther 2012-2018

    The number 197 of El Croquis is dedicated to the París based practice of Bruther, founded by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Therior in 2007, and presents their most relevant projects carried out between 2012 and 2018.

    Semi-hard cover
    278 pages
    24 x 34 cm – 2 Kg

    Go to ‘El Croquis’ website
  • Homes for our time

    Homes for our time

    Homes for our time by Philip Jodidio
    Homes for our time by Philip Jodidio and edited by Taschen
    Homes for Our Time by Taschen | Oak House in El Escorial (Madrid), Spain by Aranguren y Gallegos architects.
    Aranguren y Gallegos architects | El Escorial (Madrid) Spain | June 2016