Mark Lee is a founding partner of Johnston Marklee, based in Los Angeles. Since its establishment in 1998, the firm has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 50 major awards, including the Richard Neutra Medal and the American Academy of Arts & Letters Award. Projects undertaken by Johnston Marklee are diverse in scale and type, spanning fourteen countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Notable projects include the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, Texas; the permanent home for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program (ISP) at Roy Lichtenstein Studio in New York’s Greenwich Village; a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and the UCLA Graduate Art Studios campus in Culver City, California.
Mark has previously taught at Princeton University; the University of California, Los Angeles; the Technical University of Berlin; ETH Zürich; and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he served as Chair of the Department of Architecture from 2018 to 2023. He has held the Cullinan Chair at Rice University and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto. Together with partner Sharon Johnston, FAIA, Mark was the Artistic Director of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
