Mark Jarzombek
Professor of the History & Theory of Architecture, School of Architecture & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Mark Jarzombek
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Holcim Awards North America ceremony, Toronto, Canada
Presenting the Holcim Awards Silver (l-r): Enrique Norten, Member of the Board of the Holcim Foundation and Principal & Founder of TEN Arquitectos; Kai-Uwe Bergmann – BIG Bjarke Ingels Group, New York and Matthijs Bouw - One Architecture, Amsterdam – members of the consortium winning Holcim Awards Silver for “Rebuild by Design: Urban flood protection infrastructure”; Alain Bourguignon, Holcim Area Manager for North America and the United Kingdom; and jury member Mark Jarzombek, Associate Dean, School of Architecture & Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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1st Holcim Roundtable 2014 – “Re-materializing construction”
Experts from all continents at the inaugural Holcim Roundtable (l-r, front): John Ochsendor f (USA), Marc Angélil (Switzerland), Shrashtant Patara (India), Guillaume Habert (France/Switzerland), Annette Aumann (Switzerland), Xuemei Bai (Australia), Anna Heringer (Austria), John Fernandez (USA) and (l-r, back): Jens Diebold (Switzerland), Michael Braungart (Germany), Maarten Gielen (Belgium), Werner Sobek (Germany), Mark Swilling (South Africa), Alejandro Aravena (Chile), Vivian Loftness (USA), Laila Seewang (Switzerland), Philippe Block (Switzerland), and Mark Jarzombek (USA).
Last updated: August 12, 2024 Cambridge, MA, USA
He presented “Let’s create the Institute for the Study of Urban Metrics (ISUM)” at the inaugural Holcim Roundtable 2014 held at MIT and attended the 2nd Holcim Roundtable 2015 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland.
He works on a wide range of topics – both historical and theoretical. He is one of the country’s leading advocates for global history and has published several books and articles on that topic, including the ground-breaking textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikramāditya Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching.
He was a Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) fellow, Landover, MD (1985), Post-doctoral Resident Fellow at the J Paul Getty Center for the History of Humanities and Art, Santa Monica, CA (1986), a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1993), at the Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal (2001) and at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (2005). He has worked extensively on nineteenth and twentieth century aesthetics, and the history and theory of architecture.
He studied at the University of Chicago (1970-73) and obtained a Diploma of Architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1980, and a PhD on History of Architecture from MIT in 1986.
He received a Fulbright Senior Specialist Award in 2009 from the Council for International Exchange of Scholars of the Institute of International Education.
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