Mario Egozi — Architect
“Inspiration comes from everywhere. I delight in the unexpected, in the wonderment of surprise. A great architect must be an artist.”
“Homes built today are too large. We need way less than we think we do, and my mission is to at least have that conversation,” Egozi said. “It is easy to design large where the premium of space is not considered. Efficient design, compact and well organized, is more difficult. We need to learn to live with less.”
Still, Egozi, who says he’s also inspired by Brazilian residential architecture and its integration of wood with glass, concrete, or steel, has embraced his own evolution toward taking a progressively bolder design approach, whether it be using furnishings and color motifs to play of a client’s artwork or integrating particular spatial themes throughout an abode.
Case in point is the aforementioned Manhattan apartment. Taking his client’s fondness for her Paris apartment into account, Egozi aimed to interpret how a Parisian apartment would feel if it were located on New York City’s Central Park West.
With that in mind, Egozi stripped the 3,600-square-foot space down to its steel beams and concrete, laid down parquet flooring, and built in plaster moldings and fixtures throughout the home. Egozi also deployed five different shades of white on the interior walls in order to accentuate the pops of color from the furniture and artwork. The three-bedroom, three-and-a-half bathroom project was completed in 2021.
“Architecture, to me, is about spatial relationships with textural color painted upon it. Inspiration comes from everywhere,” Egozi said. “I delight in the unexpected, in the wonderment of surprise. A great architect must be an artist.”
— Excerpt from New View: A Curated Visual Gallery: Twenty Magnificent Homes by Northeast Architects
Photography by Richard Powers
Photography by Richard Powers
Photography by Richard Powers