Mario Gooden

Mario Gooden is a cultural practice architect and director of Mario Gooden Studio: Architecture + Design. His practice engages the cultural landscape and the intersectionality of architecture, race, gender, sexuality, and technology. His work crosses the thresholds between the design of architecture and the built environment, writing, research, and performance. Gooden’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Italy; Architekturmuseum der TU Mūnchen; and Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (formerly the Netherlands Architecture Institute). Gooden’s multimedia installation work entitled The Refusal of Space was featured in the Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art in 2021. Gooden is also a professor of practice at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University where he is the director of the Master of Architecture program and codirector of the Global Africa Lab (GAL). 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.