Graduated from Stanford University in 1972 and studied in Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire in the Congo, Louvain University in Belgium and college of Europe in Bruges, Belgium where he worked on initiating an Environmental Studies Program in 1972-1973.
Marc then moved to Taos, New Mexico where he began his career in construction, working as a laborer building homes, hotels, and high-rise structures in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 1977, Marc built his first home for which he made 6,000 adobes and felled 50 30’ standing dead spruce trees in the nearby forest for his vigas or roof beams. Marc learned building techniques from Mike Reynolds passive solar homes where, he used bottles, cans, and tires as mass in this renewable resource and energy-efficient structures. He learned the art of plastering with some of the locally available aggregates like Tierra Blanca. He became a licensed General Contractor in 1978 in New Mexico where he is still currently licensed. After building a myriad of adobe structures, commercial structures like the Taos Drum Company and a large passive solar mechanic’s shop, he moved to California in 1986 where he continued to build homes and became licensed in 1987.
He built his totally green structure in Penngrove in 1991 using natural paints, formaldehyde-free plywood and natural woods, pigmented and naturally colored plasters and other natural materials. This home was featured in several publications and Marc became a member of the Natural Building Network in Sebastopol.
He continued building homes and commercial structures promoting natural building materials and using new building technologies like straw bale homes, building the first straw bale home in Santa Clara County in 1998. He has contrived to specialize in green building methods and is currently working on a major renovation of a home using these methods and materials.
