Mark Simon, FAIA, received his B.A. in 1968 from Brandeis University with honors in Sculpture, and his Master of Architecture degree from Yale University in 1972. He has served on numerous design award juries and has taught architectural design at Yale, Harvard, the University of Maryland, Carnegie Mellon, North Carolina State University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He is one of four partners at Centerbrook Architects and Planners in Centerbrook, Connecticut.
November 9, 2011 – 4:23 pm
The original Yale Bulldog, Handsome Dan I (1889-1897), was the first live collegiate mascot, and this month he is reborn and then some. Larger than life and bronzed, he stands guard at Jensen Plaza outside the Yale Bowl – installed just in time for The Game against Harvard on November 19. The Bulldogs have lost to [...]
November 4, 2011 – 8:59 am
A short while ago, when coming down Prospect Street in New Haven, you would have spied a sleek, one-story, silver classroom and office building with horizontal metal siding and long patterns of windows that seemed to race by each other. It was an intriguing curiosity, boldly announcing that it was having fun. And yet its [...]
February 28, 2011 – 3:17 pm
Our academic and institutional clients sometimes express an initial wariness about Centerbrook’s inclusive and interactive design workshops that can involve a wide spectrum of stakeholders. They worry that too many people participating with too many ideas will generate an unrealistic and unaffordable wish list, leading to disappointments and controversy. In fact, the workshop effect is [...]
August 20, 2010 – 2:35 pm
Good grief; the future is already here and I haven’t continued my blogging about the future. Last time I had asked “What will make our world uplifting and sustaining in 2060?” It’s time to bite the bullet (will bullets exist outside of museums in 2060? I’d bet the mortgage they will), and imagine. Again we’ll [...]
January 25, 2010 – 11:03 am
It is time for architects to think about the future; I mean REALLY think about the future, not try to “look like the future,” or contemplate next week, but consider the way-out-there tomorrows, say 30, 50, or 100 years ahead. And not what it will be like, but what it SHOULD be like. In this [...]
November 16, 2009 – 3:30 pm
We all have seen “modern” buildings that were passé before their time, designs whose “stylin’ shock and awe” faded so fast that they barely survived the ribbon-cutting. In some instances, the urge for progress has led to the destruction of perfectly serviceable buildings. In New York, they tore down Yankee and Shea stadiums, while in [...]
