Mark Wasiuta

Mark Wasiuta is an architect, writer, and curator. He is the co-director of the Critical, Curatorial, and Conceptual Practices in Architecture program at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Columbia University. His research exhibition practice focuses on the agency and ontology of documents and archives for architecture through under-examined projects of the postwar period. His work has been exhibited widely and collected by the Sharjah Art Foundation. He was recently an Inaugural Graham Foundation Fellow and is currently Guest Curator of Architecture at the Jewish Museum in New York City. Wasiuta is co-author and co-editor of “Rifat Chadirj: Building Index, Dan Graham’s New Jersey,” and author of numerous articles. His current work looks at links between archives and algorithms.

Farzin Lotfi-Jam and Mark Wasiuta collaborate on “Control Syntax,” a series of research projects and exhibitions that map the historical and contemporary intersections of computers and cities. Their shared work has been exhibited at MAXXI, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Istanbul Design Biennial, the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and the Luma Foundation, among other venues. Their collaborative projects have been supported by grants from the Onassis Foundation and the Graham Foundation, and they are co-recipients of the 2020 M+ Museum/Design Trust Research Fellowship.