About Us
Mark Wright, AIA grew up in the midwest, was educated at the Rice University School of Architecture in Houston. After ten formative years with R. M Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects, and another ten designing houses and golf clubhouses for Robert Lamb Hart Planners and Architects, he joined his partner Karin Robinson to establish their award-winning practice in 2003.
Mr. Wright enjoys working with heritage houses in historic places, and strives to bring these buildings into an elegant, mutually respectful accommodation to the needs of the families who live in them now. He believes that his work can bring a sense of lively coherence to houses that have been seriously compromised in successive episodes of ad-hoc alteration, and that the best way to do this is to work with the inherent qualities of a house, rather than to selfishly undermine them. The firm’s Gothic House, featured as a case study in The Vintage House by Hewitt and Bock, shows how this can be done. Always careful in pursuit of high-quality, energy-efficient construction, he urges clients to build to the fully-sustainable Passive House standard.
Mr. Wright is author of "H. H. Richardson’s House for Reverend Browne, Rediscovered" published in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and more recently of “Mercy, Amity & Trust: Robert Venturi (1925-2018)” published by Lapsus Lima. The working title of his ongoing research and writing project is “Robert Venturi’s House for David Hughes, Reconsidered.” He is a MacDowell Colony Fellow, and still draws with pencil and paper.
Mark Wright is licensed to practice architecture in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and New Hampshire.