"I’ve never met a woman architect before..." podcast with Michele Grace Hottel, Architect

Episode 51: Interview with Marc Appleton, of Appleton Partners LLP-Architects

January 20, 2023
"I’ve never met a woman architect before..." podcast with Michele Grace Hottel, Architect
Episode 51: Interview with Marc Appleton, of Appleton Partners LLP-Architects
Show Notes

One of the things that I have been doing during the pandemic opening up are reaching out to different architects and going to their offices to meet in person and
I have been visiting a lot of residential architects lately and I have my own projects so this is first in a series on #HousesHousing that I will be focusing on in the new year.

One of the first architects whose firm I worked at who primarily specialized in Houses is Marc Appleton. I worked for Marc in the early 90's. I would like to say that everything that I learned the right way is from that office.  And it shows with the list of architects who have gone on to start their own firms or have become partners in other firms, I have interviewed and will be interviewing quite a few of them in the coming months. 

Marc Appleton, Appleton Partners LLP-Architects
https://www.appleton-architects.com/

Marc Appleton is the founding Principal of Appleton Partners LLP-Architects, with offices in Santa Monica and Santa Barbara, California.  

He received a B.A. honors degree in English from Harvard College (1968) and a Master of Architecture degree from The Yale School of Architecture (1972.)

His design work has received many awards and has been widely published in Architectural Digest, Town and Country, Veranda, Luxe and other periodicals.  He is one of only fourdesigners who were consistently named among Architectural Digest's top 100 designers from 1991-2016.

 he has written, published or contributed to: 

Rexford Newcomb's Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States (Acanthus,1999), 

George Washington Smith: An Architect's Scrapbook (Tailwater, 2001), California Mediterranean (Rizzoli, 2007),

New Classicists (Images, 2008), Casa del Herrero (Rizzoli, 2009), Robert Winter's Myron Hunt at Occidental College (Tailwater, 2012), 

the series Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 (Tailwater/Angel City Press, 2016-2020)  

Ranches: Home on the Range in California (Rizzoli, 2016) and Lotusland (Rizzoli, 2022.)


Publications from his Publishing Company:

Marc Appleton, Appleton & Associates, Inc. & Appleton Partners LLP – Architects, & Tailwater Press LLC

I. Books by Marc Appleton

• Academy Sant’ Antonio, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2018

• 40 Years - An Architectural Scrapbook, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016

• The Architect’s House, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016

• Ranches, Rizzoli International Publications, 2016

• New Classicists, Images Publishing, 2008

• California Mediterranean, Rizzoli International Publications, 2007

• George Washington Smith: An Architect’s Scrapbook, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2001

II. Edited and/or Published by Marc Appleton / Tailwater Press LLC

• The Steedman Silver, Robert Sweeney, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019

• ICAA Southern California Chapter 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Ed. Marc Appleton, 2014

• Myron Hunt at Occidental College, Robert Winter, Tailwater Press, Inc., 2012


• Classicist, No. 15, Ed. Marc Appleton, 2018

• Casa del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial, Rizzoli International Publications, 2009

• Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States, Rexford Newcomb. Ed. Marc Appleton, Acanthus Press, 1999

• Santa Barbara Architecture, Wayne McCall. Fifth Impression, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019

• Gordon B. Kaufmann, Roland Coate, Wallace Neff and Paul Williams, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016-2018

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