Marcus Baumgart

Contributor Profile

Marcus Baumgart is founding partner of Baumgart Clark Architects, based in Melbourne Australia. He is a long-time freelance contributor to Architecture Media magazines, and the author and editor of the blog archistartup.com, set up to detail the journey of an architecture practice from conception through to establishment.

Occupation: Architectural company director

Location: Melbourne, Australia

Website: archistartup.com, baumgartclark.com.au

‘A neat trick’: Two Halves House

Projects | Responding eloquently to its lightly forested, sloping site, this earth-toned house has been split into two.

Highly crafted: Freshwater Apartment

Projects | A focus on craft and making provides this radically reconfigured apartment with a sense of warmth and tactile materiality.

Effortless makeover: Balwyn House

Projects | A classic suburban house has been transformed by an intervention that manages to appear both understated and effortless.

Virtue of restraint: South Melbourne House

Projects | Showing restraint and simplicity, a new home by Powell and Glenn is animated by the changing light and shade.

Designing retail success

Practice | Skincare company Aesop has used branding, sophisticated e-tailing and in-store experience to build a formidable brand name.