Marc Charles Kushner is an American architect, entrepreneur and author. He is a partner at the New York City based architecture firm Hollwich Kushner and co-founding CEO of Architizer.
After working for multiple architecture firms including Steven Holl, Jürgen Mayer H. and Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis, Kushner formed the architecture firm Hollwich Kushner in 2007 with Matthias Hollwich whom he had met in Jürgen Mayer’s Berlin kitchen five years prior. In 2012 Marc Kushner and Matthias Hollwich won MoMA PS1's Young Architects Program with their project Wendy. Following the success of Wendy, Hollwich and Kushner received multiple commissions including the Fire Island Pines Pavilion, the University of Pennsylvania’s LEED Gold Pennovation Center, Journal Squared, and the speculative innovation campus . In 2017, the firm was included in Fast Company's ranking of the World's Most Innovative companies. Marc has spoken on the state of architecture at events such as TED and PSFK.
Architizer
During the financial crisis of 2007–2008, Marc Kushner and his business partner Matthias Hollwich created a digital platform to help architects promote their firms’ work. Architizer rapidly grew to become the largest platform for architecture online. To increase visibility of global architecture Kushner incepted the A+ Awards in 2013. They have grown to become the largest global architecture awards program.
''The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings''
In 2014 Kushner was invited to speak at the 30th anniversary of TED in Vancouver. There he reviewed the last 30 years of architectural history and expounded on how social media was changing the direction of the way buildings are designed. The TED talk was followed in 2015 with Marc Kushner’s first book, published by Simon & Schuster and TED Books - The Future of Architecture in 100 Buildings.
Personal life
Kushner married Christopher Barley, also an architect, in a Jewish ceremony on March 31, 2012. Kushner's brother Jonathan Kushner is a real estate developer and president of their family's real estate organization, Kushner Real Estate Group. Marc is a first cousin of presidential advisor Jared Kushner, and Joshua Kushner, managing partner of Thrive Capital, a New York-based private equity firm. Kushner also serves as president of the Board of Friends of Plus Pool, a nonprofit behind the development of a water-filtering, floating swimming pool that will filter and clean urban rivers.
