Mario Cipresso is co-founder and principal of Los Angeles based architecture firm, studioSHIFT. Formed in 2004, studioSHIFT is a critical practice with a commitment to challenging convention and producing innovative architecture through rigorous analysis and advanced design methodologies. Prior to studioSHIFT, Mario served a six year tenure at Morphosis, working as a designer under Pritzker Prize winning architect, Thom Mayne.

While with Morphosis, Mario contributed to many of the firm’s most innovative and notable projects both nationally and internationally. Large scale urban planning and design projects for which Mario was responsible include the Penang Turf Club in Malaysia and East Darling Harbor in Sydney, Australia. More recently, Mario assisted in the design of the firm’s National Jazz Center and Park in post-Katrina New Orleans. Prior to his departure, Mario served as designer and project manager for the Giant Campus in Shanghai, a mixed-use corporate headquarters and clubhouse that is currently under construction.

Mario’s design work has been exhibited and published extensively. In addition to his work as a practitioner, Mario maintains a commitment to education and to the critical discourse of contemporary architecture, design and culture. He currently teaches architectural design at the University of Southern California and serves as a contributing editor of the online architectural forum, Death By Architecture which he founded in 1995.

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