Prof Mario Gooden
Bachelor of Science in Design, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina (USA);
M Arch Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), New York (USA).
Prof Gooden is Professor of Professional Practice, Director of the MArch Program, Sequence Director for Advanced Architecture Studios, and Co-Director of the Global Africa Lab at GSAPP. Gooden’s own architectural practice — Mario Gooden Studio: Architecture + Design — seeks to challenge the underlying epistemologies and logics of space-making that dominate Western thought and spatial praxes. As such, Gooden’s work crosses the thresholds between design, writing, research, and performance.
The recipient of numerous design awards including The Charles McKim Prize and William Kinne Fellows Traveling Fellowship Award for M Arch graduates, Gooden’s work has been exhibited widely, inter alia at the International Exhibition of Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy; Architekturmuseum der TU Mūnchen, Germany; the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), Rotterdam, the Netherlands; the National Building Museum in Washington, DC71 (USA); and the Municipal Arts Society, New York (USA). Performative works include Black Holes Ain’t So Black at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York (USA) (2018); Working on Water, Columbia University, New York (USA) (2019); The Motion of Light in Water, Princeton University BIM Incubator, Princeton (USA) (2019). Gooden’s installation work entitled The Refusal of Space featured in the Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America exhibition at MOMA, New York (2020). His work has been featured in publications such as ARTFORUM, Architect, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Wallpaper, Architecture & Urbanism (A+U), and The New York Times.
Prof Gooden is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow; a MacDowell Colony Fellow; and a 2019 National Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture recipient. Gooden is the author of Dark Space: Architecture, Representation, Black Identity (Columbia University Press, 2016) as well as numerous articles on architecture, art, and cultural production.
Prof Mario Gooden joined VIAD in 2020.
