Dr Mark Campbell
- Senior Tutor (Research) and Reader in Architecture and Media
- Architecture MA Architecture (ARB/RIBA Part 2)
Mark is an architect and academic. His current research focuses on architecture as a marker of lost economic processes.
Mark received his PhD and MA from Princeton University. His graduate research considered hypochondria and aestheticism in early-twentieth century architectural culture.
Since 2005 he has taught at the Architectural Association and is a Visiting Professor of Architecture at Southeast University, Nanjing. He has previously taught at Cambridge University, the Cooper Union, Princeton University and the University of Auckland University and is a former editor of the Journal of Architecture (RIBA / Routledge) and former managing editor of Grey Room (MIT Press).
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Research interests
Mark's current research focuses on architecture as a marker of lost economic processes. This work – explored in the context of the United States of America and Peoples Republic of China – engages with the market dynamics and aesthetic imprint of architecture, considered as both as a socio-economic driver and a marker of larger political forces.
Current and recent projects
Mark is currently engaged with three distinct research projects.
Bernard Berenson and the Acquisition of Taste (Lund Humphries, 2025) examines the aesthetic politics, connoisseurship and monetary dynamics of the early twentieth-century art market.
Double Standards (Routledge USA, 2026) provides an extensive expansion of the conceptual and visual documentation of failed speculative and leisure-based architectural developments in the United States, previously published and exhibited as Paradise Lost.
Another project, A Question Regarding Technology (Southeast University Press, 2019), examines the ‘lost history’ of architectural modernism in China. This work will be further developed through a commission to make a series of short documentaries on Chinese ghost developments.
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Publications:
Campbell, M. (2026) Double Standards. New York: Routledge USA. (Forthcoming)
Campbell, M. (2025) Bernard Berenson and the Acquisition of Taste. London: Lund Humphries. (Forthcoming)
Campbell, M. (2024) Architecture as a Frail, Literary Object. London: Routledge.
Campbell, M. (2024) The Parallax View. London: Bloomsbury / BFI Film Classics.
Campbell, M. (2019) The Question Concerning Technology. Nanjing: Southeast University Press.
Campbell, M. (2016) Paradise Lost. London: Architectural Association Publications.
Book Chapters:
Campbell, M. (2016) 'The Overlook' in J. Aragüez, ed. The Building. Zurich: Lars Müller.
Campbell, M. (2014) 'Unreal Estates' in J. Self, ed. Real Estates: Property and Ownership in Neoliberal Debt Economies. London: Bedford Press.
Campbell, M. (2013) 'TVs' in M. Campbell, ed., Guns, Household Objects, Road Trips, Cars, Bodies, Acts of Devotion & TVs. London: Architectural Association.
Campbell, M. (2012) 'Choice by Design' in POA 1-22. London: Bedford Press.
Campbell, M. (2012) 'Gleaming Toys' in H. Furjan, ed. VIA: Dirt. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Journal Articles:
Campbell, M. (2017) 'What Did We Talk About?', REAL Review.
Campbell, M. (2015) ‘An Expanded Take on Media Practices', AArchitecture 27.
Campbell, M. (2014) 'All Work and No Play',AArchitecture.
Campbell, M. (2013) 'Blood Simple', AA Files 66.
Campbell, M. (2013) 'The Passenger', New Architecture.
Campbell, M. (2011) 'Going Back to Greenville', AA Files 62.
Campbell, M. (2009) 'The Eye of the Beholder: Geoffrey Scott’s View of History', AA Files 59.
Exhibitions:
Paradise Lost, Architectural Association, London 2016
External collaborations
External Examiner at Cambridge University
- External Examiner at the Welsh School of Architecture
- Vice-Chair on the Architectural Association Search Committee for the new AA Director.
- 2016–2018, Editor for Expanded Content and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Architecture, co-published by the AA and Routledge.
- Previously served as the Managing Editor of Grey Room (MIT Press) and Publications Manager of the Cooper Union Archive.
