Faculty Profile

Mark Morris teaches architectural design, history and theory. Winner of an AIA Medal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture, He has taught at the Bartlett, Architectural Association, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His studios focus on modeling techniques, reflexive composition and craft. Morris’s essays have featured in Frieze, Contemporary, Cabinet, AD, and Domus. He is author of two books: Models: Architecture and the Miniature and Automatic Architecture: Designs from the Fourth Dimension.  Host of the iTunes podcast series, “Architecture on Air,” Morris co-organized the Preston Thomas Memorial symposium “Architecture of Disbelief”. His research focuses on architectural models, scale, and questions of representation. Morris has previously served as Coordinator of Post-Professional Programs and Director of Graduate Studies in the Field of Architecture.

Morris studied architecture at Ohio State University and took his Ph.D. at the Consortium Doctoral Program, University of London, supported by a Royal Institute of British Architects grant.

• ARCH 5302 Theories & Analysis of Arch II
• ARCH 5112 Core Design Studios II
• ARCH 6308 Spec Top: Theory of Arch II
• ARCH 2102 Design IV
• ARCH 6509 Spec Top Vis Rep II

• Models: Architecture and the Miniature (2006)
• “Hexed House: A Critique of Joseph Urban's Gingerbread Castle,” Cabinet: Quarterly of Art and Culture (2008)
• Book Review: Joseph Rykwert's The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts. Critical Quarterly (2009)

• Trust Research Grant, the Royal Institute of British Architects (2001–04)
• Teacher Award (with Val Warke), Thesis advisors to Reilly Hogan, first-place winner of the International Velux Award for Students of Architecture (2008)
• Research Fellow, Tate Education Department, Tate Modern, London (2002)
• "Postgraduate Grant, Overseas Research Studentship," the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the United Kingdom (2002)
• AIA Medal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture (1993)

• International Lecture Series, "Model Agency,” Bartlett School, University College London, London, United Kingdom (2010)
• Conference Moderator, Material Feedback, "Defining the Naturoid," Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York City (2009)
• "Models as Mumbo Jumbo: Scale and Spirituality," The Value of Design: Design is at the Core of What We Teach and Practice, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture National Meeting, Portland, Oregon (2009)

• Architecture On Air: Podcast
• Cabinet Magazine
• The London Consortium