Bio

Mark Ferguson, partner of Ferguson & Shamamian Architects, L.L.P. in New York, was appointed by Catholic University President John Garvey as the dean of the School of Architecture and Planning on July 1, 2020. 

Ferguson holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Carnegie-Mellon University and a master’s in architecture from Princeton University. Since its founding in New York in 1988, Ferguson & Shamamian Architects has grown to a firm of 90 with projects in 23 states and five countries. Its primary focus is the design of private residences including city apartments, townhouses, suburban houses, and country estates. 

Ferguson has experience teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design and serving as a visiting critic at the University of Miami. Ferguson is a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), a founding member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, and serves as director of the National Board of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. Ferguson and his wife Natalie raised their two daughters in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. His daughters, one a lawyer, the other an artist and teacher, are now both married and living in Park Slope and Chicago, respectively.

Awards

AD100 (2006-2019); Mizner Award for Residential Architecture (2018, 2019), Schuler Award for Architecture (2018); Stanford White Award for Architecture (2012, 2015, 2016, 2018); Palladio Award for Architecture (2008, 2010, 2017); Decorators & Design Building Stars of Design (2017); Acanthus Award (2016); Hyland Award for Architectural Design (2013); Arthur Ross Award for Architecture (2003); Residential Architect Merit Award (2001); Glenwood, Illinois Competition Honorable Mention (1996); Young Architects Award (1990)