Mario Gooden, United States
Mario Gooden is a cultural practice architect whose practice engages the cultural landscape and the intersectionality of architecture, race, gender, sexuality, and technology. He is also a Professor of Professional Practice, Director of the Master of Architecture program, and Co-Director of the Global Africa Lab (GAL) at Columbia GSAPP, an innovative research initiative that explores the spatial topologies of the African continent and its diaspora. His work crosses the thresholds between the design of architecture and the built environment, writing, research, and performance.
Gooden is the recipient of numerous design awards, citations, and recognitions and his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the International Exhibition of Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy; Architekturmuseum der TU Mūnchen; the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi); Storefront for Art and Architecture; the National Building Museum in Washington, DC; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Gooden is the recipient of numerous design awards, citations, and recognitions and his work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the International Exhibition of Architecture Biennale in Venice, Italy; Architekturmuseum der TU Mūnchen; the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi); Storefront for Art and Architecture; the National Building Museum in Washington, DC; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
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Gooden is a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a 2019 recipient of a National Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, and the 2024 William A. Bernoudy Architect in Residence American Academy in Rome. Gooden is the author of Dark Space: Architecture Representation Black Identity (Columbia University Press, 2016) as well as numerous essays and articles on architecture, art, and cultural production. Gooden is also a Senior Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa) and a founding member of the Black Reconstruction Collective.
Atelier 11 Residency, July 2025 During the residency with L'AiR Arts at Atelier 11, Mario aims to conduct additional research and development of his performance installation Black Holes Ain’t So Black which uses juxtaposition and collage of archival images, film, video, simultaneous oration, and performance to enact the spatial praxes of liberation of historic and contemporary Black life and architecture. More specifically, research for the oration will focus on James Baldwin and his stays in Paris as he sought refuge and fugitivity from the oppressive conditions of the United States. |
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This residency is generously supported by Columbia Global Centers at Reid Hall and Columbia University / Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
