Mario Carpo
Mario Carpo, Dr Arch (Italy), PhD (History, European University Institute), HDR (Art History, France), is the Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL London, and part-time Gao Feng Professor at the College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University, Shanghai.
After studying architecture and history in Italy, Dr. Carpo was an Assistant Professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and received tenure in France in 1993. He served as Head of the Study Centre at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montréal from 2002 to 2006, Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at the Yale School of Architecture from 2010 to 2014, and Professor of Architectural Theory at Die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts, Vienna) from 2017 to his retirement in November 2023. He was also a Guggenheim Fellow in 2022–2023.
Dr. Carpo’s research and publications focus on the relationship among architectural theory, cultural history, and the history of media and information technology. His award-winning Architecture in the Age of Printing (MIT Press, 2001) has been translated into several languages. His other books include The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence (MIT Press, 2017); The Alphabet and the Algorithm (MIT Press, 2011, also translated); The Digital Turn in Architecture, 1992–2012 (Wiley, 2012); and his most recent monograph, Beyond Digital: Design and Automation at the End of Modernity (MIT Press, 2023).
