Mark Rakatansky
Mark Rakatansky
is an adjunct associate professor at Columbia GSAPP and principal of Mark Rakatansky Studio. His work as an architect and writer focuses on the transformative capabilities of design. Current and recently completed projects include a number of projects in Indonesia (a cultural complex, a cluster housing project, a townhouse, and the residence Permana), as well as the apartment Inner Liner, the headstone For Ira, the urban installation Open Stacks, and the clock Roman Time. He is the author of Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt (2012), the ninth volume in the Architecture Words series of the Architectural Association, and his designs and writings have appeared in numerous national and international publications. Other recent publications and interviews include the extended multi-media version of “The Transformations of Giulio Romano” (Aggregate, 2017); “Palladio and Eisenman Redux: Outside-In,” in Constructs (Yale University School of Architecture, 2016); “Mark Rakatansky, Mark Rakatansky Studio,” Conversation with the Editors in Project (2015); “Mark Rakatansky” in Form, Idea, Resonance: Thirty Years of Architectural League Emerging Voices (Princeton Architectural Press, 2015); “M. Rakatansky’s Favorite Favorite Things” on Symposium (Transmission Arts, WGXC 90.7-FM, 2014); “The Transformations of Giulio Romano” in Giulio Romano e l’arte del Cinquecento (Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, 2014); and “Byoung Cho’s Between” in Byoung Cho Architect (Thames & Hudson, 2014). Grants and Fellowships include the Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism, The Graham Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship from The Fitch Foundation, and The New York State Council on the Arts.