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Mark Mulligan Adjunct Associate Professor Department of Architecture |
Curriculum Vitae
Education |
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| 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 |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| 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: |
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| 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 |
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PROFESSIONAL WORK by Mark Mulligan, Architect |
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Selected projects, 1998 – present |
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| 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: |
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| “Casa Hayes”: Gund Hall Gallery, fall 2002 | |
| “Casa Rudin-Vega”: Gund Hall Gallery, fall 2005 |
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PROFESSIONAL WORK in other offices |
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Maki and Associates, Tokyo, Japan, 1990-96 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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LECTURES: |
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| Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston | |
| November 2005 April 2006 |
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| 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 |
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PUBLICATIONS: |
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Previously published: |
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| 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. |
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| 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) |
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| Currently under contract: | |
| Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City by Fumihiko Maki Mark Mulligan, editor, MIT Press |
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| Japanese Modern Architecture: Projects and Itineraries Mark Mulligan, Peking University Press |
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LANGUAGES: |
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| English, Spanish, Japanese, French, German | |

