PennDesign Awards Ceremony

Marc Kushner, C'99, AIA, is cofounder of award-winning architecture firm HollwichKushner (HWKN) and CEO of Architizer.com - the largest platform for architecture online. Both as a practicing architect, and in his role at Architizer, Marc is focused on making architecture more relevant and accessible.

HWKN recently unveiled designs for the University of Pennsylvania's Pennovation Center, a contemporary structure with an eye-catching multifaceted north facade. A former DuPont laboratory, the 58,000-square-foot building will serve as a great example of adaptive reuse and will be the first major development on Penn’s 23-acre Pennovation Works site intended to enable entrepreneurs, researchers and industry partners to translate inventiveness into viable ventures in a dynamic environment.

Prior to cofounding HWKN and Architizer, Marc graduated from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and spent time working at J Mayer H Architects in Berlin and Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis. Marc has taught architecture at Columbia University and Parsons and is a frequent lecturer on social media and architecture. Most recently he was invited to present an 18-minute crash-course in the last 30 years of architecture history at TED. With TED and Simon & Schuster, Marc took the conclusion of that talk and projected about the future of architecture in a new book called The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings, just out. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Interior Design, New York and many other publications. He and his partner Matthias Hollwich, visiting faculty member at PennDesign, are the recipients of the 2012 MoMA PS1 Young Architect Program.