Casey Mack

Casey Mack, RA LEED AP, is an architect and historian, and the founding director of Brooklyn-based Popular Architecture. His research and design work investigates contemporary vernaculars in relation to flexibilities and construction ecologies. Mack graduated with a BA in Art History from Vassar College and an MArch from Columbia, afterwards working with the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Hong Kong and New York. He has taught urban design and housing at the New York Institute of Technology and Parsons, and currently teaches fifth-year architectural thesis at Pratt. His work has been published in OASE, Harvard Design Magazine, Vertical Urbanism, Log, the New York Review of Architecture, the 16th International Docomomo Conference proceedings, and the Encyclopedia of Radical Helping. Mack’s book, Digesting Metabolism: Artificial Land in Japan 1954–2202 (Hatje Cantz, 2022), received the support of the Graham Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Takenaka Corporation. In 2022, Digesting Metabolism was awarded “Best Publication in Architecture” for the inaugural Archive Award from Juanzong Books in Shanghai, selected by scholars from Tongji University and ETH Zurich. Mack is currently researching the relation between cooperative control and architecture in Mitchell-Lama housing by Davis Brody & Associates.