Mark Mulligan
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Architecture

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

Education

1990 Harvard University,   Cambridge, Massachusetts
Master of Architecture, 1990
Graduated with distinction
Thesis: “Music and Architecture: a violin shop in the North End”
advisors: Sheila Kennedy and Heinz Tesar
1984 Yale University,  New Haven, Connecticut                                           
Bachelor of Arts in architecture, 1984
Graduated summa cum laude

Teaching

2007- Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Adjunct Associate Professor in Architecture
1997-2007 Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Lecturer in Architecture
1996-1998 Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Design Critic

Additional academic duties:
2002, 2007 Admissions Committee for M.Arch 2 Degree Program  
Organized and circulated a new set of guidelines for portfolio submission, based on recurrent deficiencies in our applicant pool’s portfolios.
2007-2008 Undergraduate Summer Travel/Language Study Grants
Appointed to assist Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences faculty members in selecting undergraduates to receive grants to travel and study in Japan.

Grants received:
2003 Reischauer Institute for Japan Studies + Asia Center, Harvard University
Together with Prof. Andrea Leers, received grants from both institutions to take students on a 12-day study tour of Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan in 2003.  Research and design projects emerging from this tour are published in Japan Transfer (see below).

Guest juror at other institutions:
  Keio University, Tokyo-Fujisawa, Japan
Universidad del Diseño, San José, Costa Rica
Northeastern University, Boston
Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
University of Virginia, Charlottesville

PROFESSIONAL WORK  by Mark Mulligan, Architect


Selected projects, 1998 – present
Anderson House, Alexandria, Virginia
  Current project for a 3500 sf single-family house using modular insulated panel construction for exterior walls and roofs.  Southern wall features a customized system of sliding glass doors and screens facing the garden.
Sturdy House, Marblehead, Massachusetts
  Interior renovations to 18th century wooden house in seaside town – under construction.
Casa Rudin-Vega,  San Jose, Costa Rica, 2005
  Four-story reinforced concrete structure incorporating three apartments for members of an extended family, sharing courtyard gardens and common amenities.  Sited in a tough downtown neighborhood of San Jose, the house in intended as an anchor for neighborhood regeneration.
Casa Hayes, San Jose, Costa Rica, 2002
  Three-story reinforced concrete house, incorporating a large living space that may double as a recital hall.  Features a rooftop terrace with panoramic views of the Central Valley.  Published in Dwell, UME.
Young House, Hilo, Hawaii, 2001
  Addition/renovation to existing wood frame house, providing a new carport, music studio, and entrance garden.
Morse House, Malden, Massachusetts, 2005
  Addition/renovation to existing wood frame house, using SIP construction.
Constable House, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998, 2001 (two phases)
  Interior renovation of 1860s brick rowhouse.  Published in Fine Homebuilding.
Pollalis House, Belmont, Massachusetts, 1997-99
  (in collaboration with Rafael Moneo)
Osbourne House, Harwichport, Massachusetts
Hirsch House, Concord, Massachusetts
Kurukulla Center for Tibetan Buddhist Studies, Medford, Massachusetts
  Masterplanning, landscape and architectural design for project to transform existing wood-frame house into a Buddhist study center, including new meditation hall, library, activities room, and associated spaces; relocation of public entrance to former rear of house, through garden paths.  (in collaboration with Shapero McIlroy Design)
UIA Ephemeral Structures Competition, Athens, Greece
  Project for demountable urban installation that continuously expands and contracts over a 24-hour period, serving as a café in the morning, as a library/exhbition space in the afternoon, and as an outdoor discotheque at night.  Program called for the lightweight pavilion to fold  up and fit onto a truck bed, thus to be transported overnight and set up in new spaces around the city during and after the Athens 2004 Olympic Games.  (in collaboration with Osamu Sassa)

Exhibitions:
“Casa Hayes”: Gund Hall Gallery, fall 2002
“Casa Rudin-Vega”: Gund Hall Gallery, fall 2005
 

PROFESSIONAL WORK in other offices


Maki and Associates,
Tokyo, Japan, 1990-96
Tokyo Church of Christ, 1993-5
  Project designer/ site architect for 600-seat church in central Tokyo.  3000 sq. m. reinforced concrete structure featuring translucent “double-skin” glass wall to introduce light to main sanctuary.  Published in GA, Japan Architect, Architectural Record, Shin-kenchiku.
Seminar Guest House, Keio University Shonandai Campus, 1992
  Design team member for 500 sq. m. exposed reinforced concrete structure; responsible for interiors and furnishings.  Published in Shin-kenchiku.
Kirishima International Concert Hall, 1991-2
  Design team member for 700-seat concert hall dedicated to symphonic and classical chamber music; responsible for design of hall interior as modified shoebox and interface with acoustical/technical consultants (Nagata Acoustical Engineers).  Published in GA, Japan Architect, Shin-kenchiku.
Children’s House, 1991
  Project designer for one of eight architect-designed small houses grouped to form an innovative orphanage campus in Oswiecim, Poland; collaborated with Polish executive architect to develop low-cost details.  Published in GA.
Symphony Hall, Kyoto (competition), 1991
Olympic Sports Park, Berlin (competition), 1992
Museum of Contemporary Art, Stuttgart (competition), 1990
 
Diener+ Diener Architekten,  Basel, Switzerland, 1989
Basler Versicherung HQ
  Intern, responsible for interiors and façade detail studies
Competition for Police Station in St. Gallen, Switzerland.
 

LECTURES:

Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston
  November 2005
April 2006
Universidad del Diseño, San José, Costa Rica
  June 2002
University of California, Berkeley
  April 2000
University of Hawaii
  March 2000
Catholic University of America
  April 1997
Bienal de Arquitectura, Quito, Ecuador
  November 1996
 

PUBLICATIONS:


Previously published:
Japan Transfer. Co-edited with Andrea Leers, Harvard GSD, 2003.
UME, vol. 17: “Casa Hayes”
Dwell: “Corbu Meets Costa Rica” (Casa Hayes) by Nancy Levinson, June 2003.
Journal of Architecture and Building Science: “The problem of enduring”, December 2003.
Harvard Design Magazine:
  “The Game Has Changed: scenes of Tokyo” (with photos by Harry Gruyaert), summer 2001;
“Heimlich Manoeuvres” book review, fall 1997;
“Engineers of Dreams” book review, spring 1995;
“Structure in Sculpture” book review, summer 1994;
“An Interview with Fumihiko Maki”, spring 1994.
Harvard Architectural Review #9: Architectural Research, contributing editor, Rizzoli, 1990-93.
Japanese-English translation:
  Various essays in Case: Sendai Mediatheque, 2001
“Ephemeral light” in Immaterial/Ultramaterial, 2001
Space Design: special issue on Hong Kong (winter 1992)
Japan Architect, vol. 17 (spring 1995)
 
Currently under contract:
Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City by Fumihiko Maki
Mark Mulligan, editor, MIT Press
Japanese Modern Architecture: Projects and Itineraries
Mark Mulligan, Peking University Press
 

LANGUAGES:

English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German