Mark Jarzombek (born 1954) is a United States-born architectural historian, author and critic. Since 1995 he has taught and served within the History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture at MIT School of Architecture and Planning, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
 Jarzombek attended the University of Chicago beginning in 1970 but transferred in 1973 to the ETH Zurich to study architecture.  He received his Diploma in Architecture in 1980. From Zurich he went to MIT, where he received his doctorate in 1986. He taught at Cornell University until 1994. He started teaching at MIT in 1995. For a period he was the director of the *History Theory Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture. He also served as Associate Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning from 2007 to 2014 and as Interim Dean (2014 - 2015). Over the years he has been the committee chair of over 40 Ph.D. students.
 Jarzombek has written on a wide variety of subjects, from Renaissance architecture to contemporary criticism. He is one of the country’s leading advocates for global history and has published several books and articles on that topic, including the ground-breaking textbook entitled A Global History of Architecture (Wiley Press, 2006) with co-author Vikramaditya Prakash and with the noted illustrator Francis D.K. Ching. He is the sole author of Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective (Wiley Press, 2013), which includes custom-made drawings, maps and photographs. The book builds on the latest research in archeological and anthropological knowledge while at the same time challenging some of their received perspectives. Jarzombek published a book that interrogates the digital/global imaginaries that shape our lives, Digital Stockholm Syndrome in the Post-Ontological Age (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). It was paralleled by a catalogue for a planned exhibition: *The Data Human: Who are We? Exploring the Questions of our Identity in the Digital Age that looks at a wide range of advertisements, scientific papers, journals, political events and ransomware histories to produce a visual panorama, interspersed with graphs and questions, that allows for a more robust conversation about the digitally-modified, digitally-enhanced, digitally-polluted human. 
 His book Architecture Constructed: Notes on a Discipline (Bloosmbsbury, 2023) studies the frictions divided between the architect and contractor, positioning it with the problematic of Eurocentrism. His most recent book The Long Millennium: Affluence, Architecture and Its Dark Matter Economy (Routledge, 2024) that looks at the period from the Roman Empire to Colonialism and the role of the luxury trade economy in the creation of global exchange systems.
 Jarzombek’s ground-breaking work on global architecture history was highlighted by a 3.5 million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation that Jarzombek received with co-PI, Vikramaditya Prakash (University of Washington, Seattle), to create a new scholarly entity called *Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC). Promoting the development and exchange of teaching materials for architectural history education across the globe, the collaborative provided awards to members and their teams to develop new lecture material from global perspectives.
 Jarzombek's and Prakash's other joint venture is the *Office of (Un)certainty Research [O(U)R], which is an independent "post-tenure" collaboration dedicated to challenging architecture's epistemological and design capacities and bring the conversation back into a world of immersive ambiguities.  Projects from O(U)R have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2021) and at the Space Time, Existence Exhibition: Venice ("Tirtha: A Recomposing Temple Complex", 2022; and "Kishkindha NY" 2023). The Venice Biennale project was published as *A House Deconstructed (Actar Press, 2022).
 He was a 2005 Fellow at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA), a 2002 Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture  (Montreal) a 1993 Resident Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study  (Princeton) and a 1986  Post-doctoral Fellow at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities (Santa Monica).
 Jarzombek taught a massive open online course "A Global History of Architecture" at edX in 2016. It was the first such MOOC in the field of architectural history. With its subsequent reruns, it has reached thousands of students word-wide.
 Jarzombek is also an artist. His works are represented by *Galatea Fine Arts Gallery in Boston and available on *Artsy.
 
 
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