About
MACY ARCHITECTURE
Founded by Mark Macy, Macy Architecture has realized projects across California, throughout the United States, and internationally. Cultivating a diverse client base has resulted in extensive experience with institutional, educational, commercial, retail, and arts-related projects, as well as housing. In recent years the office’s efforts have focused sharply on multi-family housing, socially and architecturally the most elementary unit of human existence and the city.
Their knowledge of both standard and alternative construction techniques allows them to design solutions that are elegant, cost effective, and environmentally sensitive. They look for unique, appropriate, and poetic responses to the constraints and opportunities of each project. In all of their work extreme care is taken to conceptualize comprehensively from the general to the particular so that the end effect conveyed is one of thorough and thoughtful consideration.
The firm’s work has been recognized by numerous design awards and publications.
Mark Macy, AIA, LEED™ AP
Principal Mark Macy, AIA, LEED® AP, has over 35 years of experience working with diverse clients on challenging and unique projects. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 1985. He went on to study in Florence, subsequently working for the noted Italian architect Cristiano Toraldo di Francia (Superstudio). He returned to California and worked nine years for the award-winning firm of Fernau & Hartman in Berkeley, eventually becoming their Senior Project Architect. In 1994, he co-founded ARC Manufacturing Company, which developed and manufactured a unique low-voltage lighting system. Before launching Macy Architecture in 2008, Macy was a founding partner of Jensen & Macy Architects for 14 years, working on such high-profile projects as SFMOMA's sculpture garden. Now he's tackling what he considers the city's greatest challenge: housing. He has taught courses in architectural design at the California State University International Program in Florence, Kent State University’s program in Sesto Fiorentino, and at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.