Marc Charles Kushner (born September 27, 1977) is an American architect, entrepreneur and author. He was a partner at the New York City based architecture firm Hollwich Kushner and co-founded Architizer.

Early life and education

The son of Lee Kushner and real estate developer

Murray Kushner Murray Kushner is an American real estate developer. Early life Kushner's parents, Joseph Kushner and Rae Kushner were Jews born in eastern Poland and Holocaust survivors, who came to America from the USSR by way of Italy in 1949. His father wo ...

, Marc Kushner was raised

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. Kushner graduated from The Frisch School before attending the

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where he received a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Political Science and Contemporary Vernacular Architecture as Cultural Artifact. Kushner then attended

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

and received a Master of Architecture.New York Times: "A Kushner Goes From Scion to 'Service Provider'" by Alex Williams
November 3, 2010

Business career

Architecture

After working for multiple architecture firms including

Steven Holl Steven Holl (born December 9, 1947) is a New York-based American architect and watercolorist. Among his most recognized works are the 2019 REACH expansion of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the 2019 Hunters Point Library in Q ...

, Jürgen Mayer H. and Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis, Kushner formed the architecture firm Hollwich Kushner in 2007 with

Matthias Hollwich Matthias Hollwich (born May 1, 1971 in Munich) is principal and founder of New York architecture firm HWKN Architecture (HWKN), a published author, and co-founder of Architizer.com. His work has been published in publications such as Wallpaper*, the ...

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 (2013), the

’s LEED Gold Pennovation Center (2016), Journal Squared (2017), and the speculative innovation campu
25 Kent
(2018). 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

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and

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. In 2019 Marc Kushner left Hollwich Kushner.

Architizer

During the

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, 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

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

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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. He is openly gay. 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 former presidential advisor

Jared Kushner Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American businessman and investor. He served as a senior advisor to 45th U.S. president Donald Trump, his father-in-law. Since leaving the White House, Kushner founded Affinity Partners, a pri ...

(son-in-law of

Donald Trump Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is an American politician, media personality, and businessman who served as the 45th president of the United States from 2017 to 2021. Trump graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pe ...

), and

Joshua Kushner Joshua Kushner (born June 12, 1985) is an American billionaire businessman, heir and investor. He is the founder and managing partner of the venture capital firm Thrive Capital, co-founder of Oscar Health, and the son of billionaire real estate ...

, managing partner of

Thrive Capital Thrive Capital is an American venture capital firm based in New York City. It focuses on media and internet investments. The firm was founded by Joshua Kushner who is also co-founder of Oscar Health and minority owner of the Memphis Grizzlies. ...

, 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.

References

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