BIOGRAPHY

Mario Gandelsonas was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the son of Lithuanian immigrants, and studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires before earning a certificate from the Centre de Recherche d’Urbanisme in Paris. Early in his career he was invited by Peter Eisenman to the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) in New York, where he contributed to Oppositions and developed his theories on urbanism and semiotics. In 1980 he co-founded Agrest & Gandelsonas Architects with his wife Diana Agrest, producing both built projects and urban plans that reflect his analytical approach to city form and design. Gandelsonas has taught at Yale and Harvard and joined Princeton University’s School of Architecture in 1991, where he serves as Professor of Architectural Design and Class of 1913 Lecturer in Architecture and directs the Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure. His extensive scholarship and design work, including The Urban Text, X-Urbanism, and Shanghai Reflections, have influenced architectural theory, urban design, and interdisciplinary research on infrastructure and cities.