Johnston Marklee designs award-winning projects of diverse scale and type, spanning fourteen countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Recent projects include the Menil Drawing Institute in Houston, a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the new UCLA Graduate Art Studios campus in Culver City; and the new Dropbox headquarters in San Francisco. Current projects include the design of the new home for the Whitney Independent Study Program at Roy Lichtenstein Studio; a renovation of the UCLA James Lawson Jr. Worker Justice Center; and the renovation of the Hauptbau at the Kunstmuseum Basel.

Sharon Johnson, FAIA is Professor in Practice at the Harvard GSD and was named as an Architectural Record’s Women in Architecture: New Generation Leader. Mark Lee is the Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard GSD and has taught at the Technical University of Berlin and ETH Zurich. Both Mark and Sharon have also taught at Princeton and UCLA and held the Cullinan Chair at Rice and the Frank Gehry International Chair at the University of Toronto.

The studio has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 50 major awards and received the Arts and Letters Award in Architecture. Publications include House Is a House Is a House Is a House Is a House, and monographs 2G N. 67, El Croquis N. 198, and A+U N. 614. The firm’s work is in the permanent collections of MOMA, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Menil Collection, SF MOMA and the Architecture Museum of TU Munich. Sharon and Mark were the Artistic Directors of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Johnston Marklee

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