MARK SHAPIRO

Mark Shapiro has shaped the built environment as architect, planner, urban designer, author and educator. For more than 30 years he has developed master plans and designs for a broad range of market sectors, including education, cultural and civic projects. Through this work he has clarified the intricate relationships between architecture and urban design in great cities and places. Mark has held faculty positions at Syracuse and Tulane Universities and was Head of the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University. He has been recognized both nationally and internationally for high-profile, technologically complex and sustainable projects for the Greensburg Sustainable Comprehensive Development Plan, Fayez S. Sarofim research building at the University of Texas Health Science Center, and Holy Cross Sustainable Redevelopment Plan in Post-Katrina New Orleans.