Mario Ramirez-Arrazola recently graduated with an M.Arch from Columbia University GSAPP and is currently a Technical Designer at Gensler, Los Angeles. Previously, Mario was an adjunct faculty member in history at Montclair State University and an intern at WaCa Design and Office DFK. Further, he is a co-founding member of Marra Roofing LLC along with his father, a roofing-construction company based in the Salt Lake Valley. He also holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Utah (2021) and an M.A. in the History of Technology from the University of Oklahoma (2023). He is 25 years old, Mexican-American (first-generation student), and grew up in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is fluent in English and Spanish.

As an undergraduate student Mario focused mainly on urban economic research and community service. In terms of his current academic endeavors, Mario is interested in late modern and contemporary art history, modern architectural history, and critical theory. He has the most depth within the relationship between art and technology in the postwar United States. His master's thesis involved primary-source research on Allan Sekula, a postwar American photographer.

For Mario, every design project must be stringent in its analysis of culture, history, theory, and representation. Mario is interested in space which subverts and agitates our expectations of reality yet also provides a socially beneficial construct. He is interested in drawing, rendering, and model photography while remaining conscious of digital processes. Most currently, Mario is interested in how contemporary materials processes, research, and engineering produce newfound forms of social subjectivity within an urban scale.

Throughout his schooling and practice Mario has remained dedicated to his passion for pedagogy and social justice—in particular, he is deeply passionate about first-generation students and their navigation of post-secondary education, as well as actively advocating for the plights of undocumented immigrants.