Mark Ginsberg

Mark Ginsberg, FAIA is a founding partner of Curtis + Ginsberg Architects LLP, whose practice covers institutional, educational, commercial and residential projects, including award-winning architecture and urban design projects. He is a registered architect in the States of New York and New Jersey with National Council of Architectural Registration Board certification, received a Master of Architecture degree from University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in theater design and government from Wesleyan University. He manages new construction, planning and urban design and housing projects, and is in charge of technical and quality assurance of the firm.

Projects he has led include the award-winning Morrisania Air Rights Houses Master Plan for the New York City Housing Authority; Greenpoint-Williamsburg Re-zoning; Ursuline Master Plan and Urban Design Study; 3rd Avenue Corridor Zoning and Urban Design Study; Maxwell High School renovation and addition; Taino Plaza mixed use development; Liberty Train Shed Restoration Master Plan and multiple projects for The Rockefeller University; along with numerous planning and zoning studies, institutional and multi-family projects.

Prior to founding Curtis + Ginsberg Architects LLP he worked for the firms of Richard Dattner Architect and Beyer, Blinder, Bell in New York City. Projects included Prototype Intermediate Schools for New York City School Construction Authority, Arverne Diagnostic Center for the New York City Board of Education, Riverbank State Park for New York State, a new New York City sanitation garage, new senior citizens' housing, and US Post Office facilities. Prior to his architectural training, he worked for the New York City Department of City Planning as a planner for environmental and waterfront programs.

Mark was the 2004 president of the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter, a vice president of the Chapter 1998-1999, and a former chair and current member of the Housing and Planning and Urban Design Committees.  He was co-chair of the Executive Committee and a coordinator of the Growth Strategies Team of New York New Visions (NYNV), the planning and design community's pro-bono response to 9/11 to assist in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan.  Under his leadership, these committees received the 2003 AIA National Collaborative Achievement Award, the 2002 AIA NY Vice-president's Citation for Design Excellence, and the 2002 President's Citation from AIA NY State. He is a past director of AIA New York State.

He is a 2002 recipient of the Matthew W. Del Gaudio Award from AIA New York State, which recognizes outstanding and valuable service to the profession. In 1997 he was the recipient of the Harry B. Ruskin Award for service to the Chapter and the profession. He was a member of the AIA National Housing Task Force from 1997 to 2000 and a 2002 member of the National AIA Housing Committee advisory group. He sits on the Board of Directors of the New York and National Housing Conference and Citizen's Housing and Planning Council, where he is a member of their Zoning Committee, and is a Fellow of the Institute for Urban Design. He was a year 2000 recipient of The Sarah Powell Huntington Leadership Award for a deep commitment to public welfare and social justice from the Women's Prison Association and Home Inc.