is a third-year M.Arch graduate student at Columbia GSAPP. He has an M.A. in the history of technology and science from the University of Oklahoma and a B.S. in economics from the University of Utah. He is currently an adjunct lecturer in history at Montclair State University.  

His academic research concerns the relationship between art and technology in the postwar United States and modern architectural history and theory. He wrote his thesis on Allan Sekula, an American photographer and critic. 

For Mario, every design project is also a research project. They must be stringent in their analysis of 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.