Mark Linder is a professor in the School of Architecture at Syracuse University. His research explores design theory and history considered in a transdisciplinary framework with a focus on modern architecture since 1950. He is the author of That’s Brutal, What’s Modern? The Smithsons, Banham, and the Mies-Image (Park Books, 2025), Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture after Minimalism (MIT Press, 2004) and numerous papers and essays in journals. From 2011 to 2014 he was Chancellor’s Fellow in the Humanities at Syracuse University. He has lectured throughout the United States and Europe and has taught as a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, Harvard, University of Illinois-Chicago, Rice University, IIT, RISD, and UCLA.
