2000 Selected Project, Città: Terzo Millennio / The City: Third Millennium, International Competition, Venice Biennale: 7th International Exhibition of Architecture.




2000 “Assemblage Assemblage Poster,” 21st Annual 100 Show of Excellence (Chicago: American Center for Design): 7, 20, 49, 64, 127.

1999 “1995 Summer Institute in Architectural Theory Poster,” Design Year in Review: The Nineteenth Annual of The American Center for Design (Crans-Près-Céligny, Switzerland: RotoVision Press): 78, 90.

1998 Award, Digital Design & Illustration Annual 7, PRINT.






1998 Award, Twenty First Annual 100 Show, American Center for Design.






1998 Award, Second Prize, National Art and Design Competition for Street Trees, Center for Human Environments (City University of New York) in association with the Cooper-Hewitt (National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution) and Trees New York.

1996 Award, Nineteenth Annual 100 Show, American Center for Design.






1995 Award, Design Distinction in Graphics, International Design 41st Annual Design Review.

1995 Award, Emerging Voices, The Architectural League of New York. Invited competition.

1992 Cited, 1991 Awards Program in Health Facilities Research, Health Facilities Research Program, American Institute of Architects/Associated Collegiate Schools of Architecture Joint Council on Architectural Research.

1992 Award, Architectural Design (Special Citation), Progressive Architecture 39th Annual Awards.

Sep-Nov 09 Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea.

Nov-Dec 03 First Step Housing Competition, Common Ground, New York.

Mar-May 03 Reconfiguring Space, Art in General, New York.

Nov-Dec 02 >redirect, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany. Group exhibition, part of haus.0 series.

Feb-Mar 02 Arverne: Housing on the Edge, Yale University School of Architecture Gallery.

Dec 01-Jan 02 Arverne: Housing on the Edge, Urban Center.

Sept 2001 Arverne: Housing on the Edge, Urban Center, organized by the Architectural League of New York, in cooperation with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Group exhibition. Columbia University Team (Michael Bell Architecture, Marble/Fairbanks Architects, Mark Rakatansky Studio).

Jun-Oct 2000 Città: Terzo Millennio / The City: Third Millennium, Venice Biennale: 7th International Exhibition of Architecture, Italy. Group web exhibition.

1999-2002 Spatial Narratives: Räumliche Erzählungen, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany. Solo exhibition, part of haus.0 series.

1998-1999 Twenty First Annual 100 Show, American Center for Design, Chicago, traveling group exhibition.

1998-1999 National Art and Design Competition for Street Trees, traveling group exhibition.

Oct-Dec 1998 Mark Rakatansky: Works, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, School of the Arts and Architecture, University of California at Los Angeles. Solo exhibition.

1996-1997 Nineteenth Annual 100 Show, American Center for Design, Chicago. Traveling group exhibition: Art Center of Fort Lauderdale, American Institute of Graphic Arts (New York), University of Wisconsin, University of Cincinnati.

My-Sep 1996 Walking and Thinking and Walking, Now Here, Louisiana Museum for Moderne Kunst, Humlebæk, Denmark. Group exhibition. July 1996 “Schools of Architecture: 25 Cities,” Present and Futures: Architecture in Cities, XIX Congress International Union of Architects, Barcelona, Spain. Group exhibition.

Jan-Mar 1996 College of Design Faculty Exhibition, Brunnier Art Museum, Iowa State University. Group exhibition.

January 1996 A Network of Public Interventions for East Des Moines, Capital Square (in conjunction with the Des Moines Art Center), Des Moines, Iowa. Solo exhibition of Committee on Physical Thought 5th year studio.

Au-Sep 1992 Architexturally Speaking, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago. Group exhibition.

Jan-Mar 1992 Halftime: A Cerebration of 75 Years of Chicago Architecture, The Arts Club of Chicago. Group exhibition.

Jan 1990 Faculty Exhibition, School of Architecture, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago. Group exhibition.

Sept 1989 New and Visiting Faculty Exhibition, The Gallery of the School of Architecture, University of Florida at Gainesville. Group exhibition.

My-Jy 1989 The Institute of, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts. Solo exhibition.

Jy-Au 1985 The Passage of Witnesses, Tamalpais High School, Mill Valley, California. Solo exhibition, part of Inter-Arts of Marin’s Small Project Series.

Feb 1983 Public Commissions: Possibilities and Procedures, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California. Invited Group Exhibition for conference.

Aug 1982 Curator and participating artist, 14 Proposals for Battery Hill 129, Clorox Company Lobby, Oakland, California (in conjunction with the Twelfth International Sculpture Conference). Group Exhibition.

June 1982 Curator and participating artist, 14 Proposals for Battery Hill 129, Gallery of the College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley. Group Exhibition.

2010: “Performative Principles of Giulio Romano,” Giulio Romano e l’arte del Cinquecento (Giulio Romano and the Art of the Cinquecento), forthcoming.

2008: “Transurbia,” Transforum 1, English and Korean text.

2007: “The Possibility of Another Culture” (together with the dialogue “Refinement in the Roughness, Casualness within Refinement: Mark Rakatansky + Cho Byoung-soo”), Space 473: 32-39, English and Korean text.

2004: "Envelope Please", in Bernard Tschumi and Irene Cheng eds., The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century (New York: Monacelli Press), 76.




2004: "Why Architecture is neither Here nor There", in Stephen Cairns, ed., Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy (London: Routledge): 99-115.




2003: Fall “The Bitterness and the Sweetness of Architecture,” Log 1: 27-32.






2002: “Tied Up with, That Fly with, That Melt into: John Coltrane’s Sample and Scratch,” Part I in >REDIRECT (Stuttgart: Künstlerhaus): 39-45, and (http://www.haussite.net/site.html), German and English text.

2001: “Räumliche Erzählungen,” retranslation and republication in Sturm der Ruhe. What is Architecture? (Vienna: Architekturzentrum Wien/Salzburg: Verlag Anton Pustet): 92-146 (German text), 82-126 (English text).



2000: “Speaking in Syllables,” Assemblage 41: 64.






1999: “Subject: Greg Lynn,” Assemblage 38: 22-27.






1999: “Der alltägliche Politik der Gesten,” translation and republication of “The Everyday Politics of Gestures,” in Christian Meyer and Mathias Poledna, ed., Sharawadgi (Baden, Austria: Felsenvilla): 83-100 (German and English text).


1999: “Räumliche Erzählungen,” translation and republication of “Spatial Narratives” on the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart website (http://www.haussite.net/site.html), German and English text.

1998: “Motivations of Animation,” ANY 23 (special issue: “Diagram Work: Data Mechanics for a Topological Age,” edited by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos): 50-57.




1998: “A/Partments,” Assemblage 35: 48-61 (and cover).






1997: “Identity and the Discourse of Politics in Contemporary Architecture,” republication in PARTS (Munich: Kunstverein München, Band 1 (Arkaden/Eingang)): 20-23.




Spring 1996: “Tectonic Acts of Desire and Doubt, 1945-1980: What Kahn Wants to Be,” ANY 14 (special issue: “Tectonics Unbound,” edited by Mitchell Schwarzer): 36-43.




Aug 1995: “Identity and the Discourse of Politics in Contemporary Architecture,” Assemblage 27 (special issue: “The Politics of Contemporary Architectural Discourse”): 9-18, with additional remarks in “Assembly 1” (37-38) and “Assembly 2” (69-70).


Spr/Sm 1995: “The Everyday Politics of Gestures,” Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts, vol. 22, no. 1 (special issue: “Picturing the City: Meditations on Public Space,” edited by Anthony Aziz): 11-19.

Sept 1994: “Mark Rakatansky,” Space Design (special issue: “Ideas and Approaches to Architecture and the City”): 70-73.

April 1994: “Krzysztof Wodiczko: Disfiguring — Refiguring,” Assemblage 23: 18-27.






1993: “Robin Evans,” Columbia Documents of Architecture and Theory 3: 175-182.






1993: “The Gestic Body of Architecture,” Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts (special issue: “The Body,” edited by Andrew Benjamin): 70-79.




Dec 1992: “Transformational Constructions (For example: Adult Day),” Assemblage 19 : 6-31.

1992: “Spatial Narratives,” The Harvard Architecture Review 8 (New York: Rizzoli): 102-121.





1992: “Spatial Narratives,” in Whiteman et al., ed., Strategies in Architectural Thinking (Cambridge: The Chicago Institute for Architecture and Urbanism/The MIT Press): 198-221.



April 1988: “Simulations of Criticism and Practice” (in the series “Art Criticism Today”), Art New England, vol. 9, no. 4: 10-11.

Fall 1984: Book review of Lucy R. Lippard, Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory in Design Book Review 5: 63-64.

Spring 2006 Bob Suter, “A Hollywood Bowl for Flushing,” Q: The Magazine of Queens College, vol. XI, no. 2: 12.

May 2002 Jayne Merkel, “Taking the A train to Queens: Housing alternatives for a new seaside community,” Architectural Record: 107-8.




2001 “Arverne: Housing on the Edge,” Constructs (Yale University School of Architecture), vol. 4, no. 2: 22.





9 Sept 2001 Herbert Muschamp, “The New Season: Architecture,” The New York Times, Section 2: 82

Dec 2000 Robert Neuwirth, “Civil Rights by Design,” Metropolis: 29.

Spring 1999 Gavin Keeney, “Street Tree Competition: Sustaining an Endangered Urban Species (The Street Tree as Hunger Artist),” Competitions, vol. 9, no. 1: 46-53.

Spring 1999 Greg Kochanowski, “Stalking Streep (and Walken and Daffy and Cow/Chicken and Godard and Piglet and Kramer . . . ),” Faultlines, no. 5: 1-3.




1999 Thomas Fisher, “De-polarizing Architecture,” Iowa Architect, no. 98: 227: 16-17.

1998-1999 Jane Braxton Little, “National Design Competition Inspires Creative Concepts for Street Tree Protection,” Trust for Public Land’s California Trees, vol. 9, no. 4: 1-3, 10.

24 July 1997 Anne Susskind, “Reflective Design: Anne Susskind meets an architect for whom God is in the detail of daily life,” Sydney Morning Herald.

27 June 1997 Louise Adler, Radio Interview, Arts Today program, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio National.

Oct 1996 Richard Vine, “Report from Denmark: Part One: Louisiana Techno-Rave,” Art in America: 40-47.





Summer 1995 Lynn Spears, “This is Not About Handrails and Shelving: Two Installations by Mark Rakatansky and The Committee on Physical Thought,” Iowa Architect, no. 95: 212: 20-23 (and cover).

Jan 1995 Ila Berman, “Strategies of Exteriority: The Precondition of the Political,” Tulane School of Architecture News 5: 4-5.

2 Sept 1994 John Pierson, “Rails That Invite You To Come and Sit a Spell,” The Wall Street Journal: B-1.

Nov 1992 Nicolai Ouroussoff, “Still in Denial,” Metropolis: 59.

Spring 1992 “What can a handrail do? A lot, says awards jury,” National Council on the Aging Networks, vol. 4, no. 2: 6.

Fall 1985 Kris Brandenbruger, “The Progressive Process,” Métier: 4.

Winter 1983 Andrea Liss, “Art Views,” Artbeat: 18.

11 Aug 1982 Charles Shere, “Twelfth International Sculpture Conference: The politics behind two exhibits,” Oakland Tribune: E-4.