Mark Jarzombek

Mark Jarzombek is Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture. He received his architectural diploma form the ETH in Zurich in 1980 and his Ph.D. from MIT in 1986. Jarzombek 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 Vikramaditya Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. His most recent books are Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline (Bloosmbury, 2023). Jarzombek and Prakash founded the Office of (Un)certainty Research [O(U)R] as an independent “post-tenure” collaboration dedicated to challenging architecture’s epistemological and design capacities and bring the conversation back into a world of immersive ambiguities. Projects from O(U)R have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale (2022) and at the Space Time, Existence Exhibition: Venice (“Tirtha: a Recomposing Temple Complex”, 2022; and “Kishkindha NY” 2023).