The Fantastic Seashell of the Mind: The Architecture of Mark Mills

She first wrote about Mark Mills's architecture in 1993 for The Journal of Taliesin Fellows. His most recent architecture book design was for James Caulfield's and Patrick F. The structural elegance of Mills's architecture stayed with her and, after Mills died, she felt she had to honor his work with a larger and more thorough publication.Bill Sosin is an award-winning photographer who designs books for other photographers, including Doug Busch, James Caulfield, Denn

When he heard Wright say that seashells are Nature’s perfect architecture, Mark made that idea the foundation of his life’s work. 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. If the sky is Nature's umbrella above us, Mills's ceilings were the umbrella over his clients' lives in their homes. It is written to appeal to both architects and a general readership.. We may be in the living room, but we are also in the entire house at all times. 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. They are, for him, shells for humans.The Fantastic Seashells of the Mind, is thoughtfully illustrated and brings together Mark Mills's own thinking behind his houses along with the insights of his wife, colleagues, and original client

She first wrote about Mark Mills's architecture in 1993 for The Journal of Taliesin Fellows. About the Author Janey Bennett is an architectural historian and awardwinning novelist (The Pale Surface of Things). . The structural elegance of Mills's architecture stayed with her and, after Mills died, she felt she had to honor his work with a larger and more thorough publication.Bill Sosin is an award-winning photographer who designs books for other photographers, including Doug Busch, James Caulfield, Dennis Manarchy, Peter Elliott, Sandro Miller, Dave Jordano, and others. Cannon's The Design Within: Inside Great Chicago Buildings (Pomegranate). His most recent architecture book design was for James Caulfield's and Patrick F