Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher, OBE, MVO, RDI (20 April 1947 – 25 June 2013) was a British architect best known for his rock music stage sets. He was born in Warwickshire, England. Fisher graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA School) in London in 1971.
Mark Fisher
- Name
- Mark Fisher
- Born
- 20 April 1947
- Birthplace
- Warwickshire, England
- Died
- 25 June 2013
- Place of death
- Hampstead, England
- Education
- Architectural Association School of Architecture
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Occupation
- architect · production designer
- Honours
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire · Royal Designer for Industry
- Languages
- English
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Mark Fisher, OBE, MVO, RDI (20 April 1947 – 25 June 2013) was a British architect best known for his rock music stage sets. He was born in Warwickshire, England. Fisher graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA School) in London in 1971.
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Mark Fisher (1947–2013) was an architect and production designer, of British nationality. The architect was born in Warwickshire and died in Hampstead. Mark Fisher was educated at Architectural Association School of Architecture and Pocklington School.
Languages used include English. Honours include Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Royal Designer for Industry.
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He was a Unit Master at the AA School from 1973 to 1977. In 1984 he set up the Fisher Park Partnership with Jonathan Park. The partnership was dissolved in 1994 when he established Stufish, the Mark Fisher Studio.
Key facts
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• Name — Mark Fisher • Born — 20 April 1947 • Birthplace — Warwickshire, England • Died — 25 June 2013 • Place of death — Hampstead, England • Education — Architectural Association School of Architecture • Practice — Stufish • Significant Buildings — U2 360° 'The Claw' • Significant Projects — * Pink Floyd 'The Wall' • The Rolling Stones 'Steel Wheels' • Madonna 'MDNA Tour' • Beijing 2008 Olympic Opening Ceremony • Elton John "Million Dollar Piano" Mark Fisher, OBE, MVO, RDI (20 April 1947 – 25 June 2013) was a British architect best known for his rock music stage sets. He was born in Warwickshire, England. Fisher graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA School) in London in 1971. He was a Unit Master at the AA School from 1973 to 1977. In 1984 he set up the Fisher Park Partnership with Jonathan Park. The partnership was dissolved in 1994 when he established Stufish, the Mark Fisher Studio.
Stage sets
Stage sets
• Illustration — Mark Fisher was architect for numerous rock music stages including the famous U2 "Claw" (2009) Fisher designed stage sets for Pink Floyd (including 'In the Flesh Tour' performed live in 1977, ‘The Wall Tour’ performed live 1980–81 (with Roger Waters and Gerald Scarfe) and 'The Division Bell Tour' 1994), for The Rolling Stones (including Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour 1989, Voodoo Lounge Tour 1994, Bridges to Babylon Tour 1997, A Bigger Bang Tour 2005, and 50 & Counting... Tour 2012), Mylène Farmer (Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy in 2006, 2009 Tour and Timeless in 2013), Tina Turner and U2 (including the Zoo TV Tour in 1992, PopMart Tour 1997 and the U2 360° Tour in 2009), and for the 2012 Diamond Jubilee Concert, Madonna's 2012 The MDNA Tour, Lady Gaga's 2012 Born This Way Ball and for the Metallica's World Magnetic Tour. In 2000, he created the Millennium Dome Show with Peter Gabriel. He has designed opening and closing ceremonies for the Olympics (Torino 2006 and Beijing 2008), The Genesis' Turn It On Again: The Tour, The Million Dollar Piano for Elton John and the 2010 Asian Games, and stage sets for theatrical shows including We Will Rock You and both KÀ and Viva Elvis by Cirque du Soleil in Las Vegas. He designed the stage sets for Laura Pausini's Inedito World Tour. Fisher designed the Han Show theatre in 2010. Fisher and his team worked closely with the client, designing a viable building alongside their vision of innovative technology and exhilarating spectacle. Fisher died in his sleep on 25 June 2013 at the Marie Curie Hospice in Hampstead, UK, leaving an estate, before taxes, of more than £7 million. His design for Elton John's Diving Board Tour debuted posthumously.
Exhibitions
Exhibitions
• 2021: Mark Fisher: Drawing Entertainment. Museum for Architectural Drawing, Berlin
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1947
Mark Fisher born at Warwickshire.
2013
Mark Fisher died at Hampstead.
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Mark Fisher was born in Warwickshire.
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Mark Fisher died in Hampstead.
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- 1.Experimental Architecture / Peter Cook. pp 63–64, Studio Vista, 1970
- 2.Pneumatic Architecture / Thomas Herzog. pp 56,134, Crosby Lockwood Staples, 1977, Translated from 'Pneumatische Architektur' 1976 by Verlag Gerd Hatje, Stuttgart
- 3.AA Projects Reviews 1973–1977
- 4.Rock Sets: the astonishing art of rock concert design: the works of Fisher Park / Sutherland Lyall. London: Thames and Hudson, 1992
- 5.Tpimagazine.com. Mark Fisher – Total Production. 3 February 2008.
- 6.British Architecture / Andreas Papadakis. pp. 94–107, Architectural Design Publications, 1982
- 7.Comfortably Numb: A History of 'The Wall', Pink Floyd 1978–1981 / Vernon Fitch & Richard Mahon, PFA Publishing, 2006
- 8.Mobile Mobile Stages – Dirk Meyhofer, pp. 108–113, AVEdition GmbH Stuttgart 1999
- 9.Mobile: The Art of Portable Architecture/ Jennifer Seigal. pp. 78–89, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002
- 10.Techno Textiles / Braddock & Mahoney. pp. 151–152, Thames & Hudson, 1998
- 11.Mark Fisher: Staged Architecture / Eric Holding. Chichester: Wiley-Academy, 2000
- 12.Mobile Mobile Stages – Dirk Meyhofer, pp. 118–125, AVEdition GmbH Stuttgart 1999
- 13.Portable Architecture, Design and Technology, Robert Kronenburg, 2008, Birkhäuser
- 14.Mylene.Net – le site référence sur Mylène Farmer.
- 15.Mylene.Net – le site référence sur Mylène Farmer.
- 16.Mylène Farmer - Concerts Timeless 2013 - Infos - Mylene.Net.
- 17.Tpimagazine.com. Tina Turner: North American Tour – Total Production. 13 January 2009.
- 18.Houses in Motion / Robert Kronenburg. pp. 91–93, Academy Editions, 1995,
- 19.U2 Show / Diana Scrimgeour. Orion, 2004
- 20.First Night: U2, Camp Nou, Barcelona – Reviews, Music. The Independent. 1 July 2009.
- 21.BBC News. Sir Paul McCartney to play Queen Diamond Jubilee gig. 7 February 2012.
- 22.Mad-Eyes – MDNA Tour Details.
- 23.MARK FISHER OBE, MVO, RDI 20.04.1947 – 25.06.2013 THE ARCHITECT OF ENTERTAINMENT.
- 24.New Architecture 4 – British Architecture into the Millennium (January 2000), pp. 88–103, Papadakis
- 25.Hughpearman.com. Gabion: Mark Fisher and the Dome : Activating the Rogers Big Top 1/2.
- 26.Regione.piemonte.it. Piemonte Pressway, e-news 14.
- 27.china.org.cn. Behind the 29th Olympic Opening Ceremony.
- 28.Official Program, Key Members of Core Creative Team, Chief Designer
- 29.We Will Rock You. Home – Welcome to the Official Website.
- 30.fisher.aspx
- 31.Hughpearman.com. Gabion: The remarkable Mark Fisher and his $180m Las Vegas theatre for Cirque du Soleil. 23 January 2005.
- 32.Cirque du Soleil. Meet the creators of Viva Elvis | Viva ELVIS.
- 33.Han Show Theatre / Stufish Entertainment Architects. ArchDaily. 2014-12-28.
- 34.Stufish. We are sad to announce. 26 June 2013.
- 35.World Entertainment News Network. Late Pink Floyd set designer leaves $11 million fortune. StarPulse Online. 23 January 2014.
- 36.Archived copy.
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