Earl Mark serves as Director of Infomation Techology and Chief Technology Officer within the School of Architecture, and as Associate Professor of Architecture. Prior to this appointment, he was a lecturer at the MIT Department of Architecture, a senior teaching fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and visiting lecturer at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. He holds a Ph.D. in Architecture with a Minor in Cognitive Science from Harvard University, a Master of Science in Media Technology from the MIT Media Lab, a Master of Architecture, and a BA in Architecture and Mathematics. In Spring 1998, Earl Mark was the Thomas Jefferson Visiting Fellow at Downing College and a Visiting Associate of the Martin Centre, of the Department of Architecture at the University of Cambridge. From 2004 to 2007, he served on the Fulbright National Screening Committee In Architecture. In addition, he was a senior software engineer at Computervision Corporation. He recently earned the Bentley 2009 Educator of the Year award, and has served in the Smart Geometry Organization as a tutor. Mark is also engaged in private practice at Johnson, Craven, and Gibson Architects in Charlottesville.

Prof. Mark is responsible for directing the development of computer based curriculum and facilities. He teaches, performs research, and has published in the areas of computer aided design, digital moviemaking and animation, and design research. His current design studio work has been exploring light-weight tension membrane fabric architecture with a minimal ecological footprint applied to the Coast of Maine.