Mark Breeze
Mark E Breeze PhD FHEA FRSA LEED-AP AIA is an award-winning and Emmy-nominated licensed architect, documentary filmmaker, educator, and academic researcher. He is the Founding Principal of the architecture, film, and research collaborative Spatial Realities; the Founding Chair of the University of Cambridge Sustainable Shelter Group; and the AIA UK Founding Sustainability Director, 2025 President, and 2026 International Director. Mark’s current research and practice explores the challenges, opportunities, and realities of sustainable human sheltering, using film as a design research tool. His work has been exhibited, screened, broadcast, and published globally.
Mark brings extensive international interdisciplinary design, practice, research, and teaching experience: he has worked as an architect in the US, UK, and China for a range of practices including Selldorf Architects, Foster+Partners, and 协和设计集团; he has directed, produced, edited, and shot architectural documentaries both independently and for Dreamworks, Discovery, and Science, and Iris Pictures, amongst others; he has taught design studios and history and theory in the UK (University of Cambridge, Architectural Association), the US (Harvard University), and China (Nanjing University, Chinese Academy of the Arts); and he has undertaken research fellowships at the US Library of Congress, The Huntington, and the University of Oxford. Mark has published with Bloomsbury and Berghahn, and his work has been featured on the BBC, exhibited in the US and UK, and broadcast internationally. His work has received numerous accolades, including a Peabody Award, the RIFA Best Film (‘the research film Oscars’), selection to numerous international film festivals, and an Emmy nomination.
Mark graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA and MA with First Class Honours, an MPhil with Distinction, and a PhD as an AHRC Scholar. He received his MArch from Harvard University as a John F Kennedy Scholar. Mark completed his post-doctoral work at the University of Oxford.
Mark brings extensive international interdisciplinary design, practice, research, and teaching experience: he has worked as an architect in the US, UK, and China for a range of practices including Selldorf Architects, Foster+Partners, and 协和设计集团; he has directed, produced, edited, and shot architectural documentaries both independently and for Dreamworks, Discovery, and Science, and Iris Pictures, amongst others; he has taught design studios and history and theory in the UK (University of Cambridge, Architectural Association), the US (Harvard University), and China (Nanjing University, Chinese Academy of the Arts); and he has undertaken research fellowships at the US Library of Congress, The Huntington, and the University of Oxford. Mark has published with Bloomsbury and Berghahn, and his work has been featured on the BBC, exhibited in the US and UK, and broadcast internationally. His work has received numerous accolades, including a Peabody Award, the RIFA Best Film (‘the research film Oscars’), selection to numerous international film festivals, and an Emmy nomination.
Mark graduated from the University of Cambridge with a BA and MA with First Class Honours, an MPhil with Distinction, and a PhD as an AHRC Scholar. He received his MArch from Harvard University as a John F Kennedy Scholar. Mark completed his post-doctoral work at the University of Oxford.