BIO

Earl Mark, PhD
Associate Professor of Architecture
322 Campbell Hall
ejmark@virginia.edu

At the University of Virginia. Earl Mark teaches, does research, and has published in the areas of computer aided design, design studio, simulation, animation and moviemaking. The core of his current research is focused on the design of rapid shelter for forcibly displaced people. Since 2007 his studios have emphasized tension membrane fabric architecture with a small environmental footprint.

In Spring 2019, 2022 and 2023, Mark served as a visiting associate professor of Architecture at the University of Oregon where he taught studio on rapid shelter for forcibly dislaced people. The studio and research in 2022 were funded througha co-authored Savage Endowment for International Relations and Peace distributed throught the University of Oregon Global Justice Center.  His more recent research on Comprehending Intricate Refugee Movements is funded thorugh a co-authored Center Grant received from the University of Virgini  Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation. In pursuit of this research on forcibly displaced people, he was invited to be a part of the Religion, Politics and Conflict group steering committee at UVA. The research and studio teaching has been supported by Norwegian owned tension membrane fabric building systems maker.

Prior to UVA, Mark was a lecturer at the MIT Department of Architecture. He was a senior teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1998, he was selected as the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College and a Visiting Associate of the Martin Centre, Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. In 2015, he received a Sabbatical in Residence at Acadia National Park in Maine. He has also held an appointment as visiting Lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich

Mark holds a Ph.D. in Architecture with a Minor in Cognitive Science from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Media Technology from the MIT Media Lab, a Master of Architecture from UNM, and a BA in Architecture and Mathematics from SUNY.

At UVA, Mark served as Chief Technology Officer within the School of Architecture responsible for developing resources, establishing and directing the IT Staff. He was a senior software engineer at Computervision where he had lead responsibility for software projects in computer aided design, including general buiding design, naval architecture, and perspective visualization. He periodically works with the practice of Johnson, Craven, and Gibson, Architects, in Charlottesville.