Mark Jarzombek

Who is Mark Jarzombek?

Mark Jarzombek is a United States-born architectural historian, author and critic. Since 1995 he has served as Director of the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at MIT, Cambridge MA, United States. Jarzombek received his architectural training at the ETH Zurich, where he graduated in 1980. From there he went to MIT, where he received his doctorate in 1986. He taught at Cornell University until 1994. He has written on a wide variety of subjects, from Renaissance architecture to contemporary criticism. He was a 2005 Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, a 2002 Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture a 1993 Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study and a 1986 Post-doctoral Fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities.