About Me.
Adam Marcus is an architect and educator currently based in Minneapolis, where he is the Cass Gilbert Fellow at the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. From 2005 to 2011, he worked at Marble Fairbanks in New York City, where he served as project architect for a number of award-winning educational and public projects. From 2009 to 2011, he was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture at Barnard and Columbia Colleges, where he taught classes dealing with parametric design, digital fabrication, and research into the use of pattern in architecture. As the Cass Gilbert Fellow, he is presently teaching undergraduate and graduate design studios and workshops focusing on the role of digital technology in design education.
Adam is a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he was the recipient of the Matthew Del Gaudio New York Society of Architects Award, the William Kinne Memorial Graduate Traveling Fellowship, and Columbia University’s nomination for the Skidmore Owings and Merrill Traveling Fellowship. Adam’s work, both independent and with Marble Fairbanks, has been published and exhibited widely. Projects with Marble Fairbanks have won numerous awards, including the AIA New York Design Honor Award, the NYC Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design, Architect Magazine’s Annual Design Review Award, and the Society for American Registered Architects Design Award. Adam has been invited as a guest critic at a number of schools, including Columbia University, Barnard College, Pratt Institute, Parsons, The Cooper Union, the University of Minnesota, the University at Buffalo, RPI, NJIT, and NYIT. He is LEED accredited, NCARB certified, and is a licensed and registered architect in the state of New York.
Adam was born in New Mexico, grew up in Virginia, and lives in Minneapolis.
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