Education

B.A. in English, Clemson University, 1979
M.Arch, Rice University, 1988
MDesS, Harvard University, 1989

Biography

Mark Cottle studied English literature and music composition at Clemson University, architecture and painting at Rice University, and theory and criticism at Harvard University. 

He has received a number of design awards, including the Steedman Fellowship in Architecture and the Dinkeloo Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome. 

His artwork may be found in the permanent collections of Rice University and the Atlanta High Museum of Art, among others. 

A continuing art project, The Cost of Money [2019-present] questions the steep human price capital exacts from the most vulnerable populations, at enormous expense to the environment. The installations place iconic works of modern architecture in dialogue with recycled and salvaged plastic bags. The material itself, the residue of unbridled consumption, constitutes the critique. Even so, the plastic bags seek to harmonize with the material, compositional, and tectonic strategies of the host architecture, so that they look and act as though they belong.
 

Statement of Teaching Interest

To help prepare students for the profession of architecture

Statement of Research Interest

To understand the relation between installation art and the discipline of architecture