“Architecture is not only about building. It is about shaping the conditions for the common life of tomorrow”

My research explores how architecture can operate as cultural infrastructure — engaging questions of typology, inclusion, transformation and collective space. Moving between practice, pedagogy and theory, I investigate how drawing, design and spatial strategies can act as operative tools in times of environmental, social and political change.

PUBLIC Research Profile: https://adk.elsevierpure.com/da/persons/martin-marker/

SELECTEDACADEMIA ANDARTICLES:

BOOKS

100 Copenhagen Typologies: Re-use, adaptation and mixed-use

Marker, M.,20 nov. 2023 1. Ed, 2025 2,Ed,The Danish Architectural Press.230 p.

Archive of contextualism: vol. 1

Marker, M (editor), 2026, The Danish Architectural Press.243 p.

Authors: Katrine Lotz, Anne Mette Frandsen, Morten Meldgaard, Martin Marker, Rasmus Strange Thue Tobiasen, Henrik Oxvig, Knud Aarup Kappel, Alex Hummel Lee, Johan Mottelson, Sofie Højgaard og Jan Støvring

Articles

We Have Architecture in Common: A Student Based Interdisciplinary Workshop Focusing on Universal Design

Waterstone, J.,Marker, M., Gramkow, M. C., Støvring, J. & Vacher, M.,10 apr. 2025,New Frontiers for Inclusion: CWUAAT 2025.Goodman-Deane, J. (red.).Springer,p. 214-225

Byens Tegning: Operative tegninger og Future-Nature

Marker, M.,10 dec. 2024,Archive of Contextualism: Complexity & Practice.1 Ed.The Danish Architectural Press

Hephaistos: Power and Agency

Marker, M.&Waterstone, J.,10 jul. 2023,PRODUCTIVE-DISRUPTIVE: Spaces of exploration in-between architectural pedagogy and practice.The Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University, aae,p. 517-526

Hephaistos: A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Design

Marker, M.&Waterstone, J.,3 sep. 2023,Design for Inclusivity: Proceedings of the UIA World Congress of Architects Copenhagen 2023.Mostafa, M., Baumeister, R., Ramsgaard Thomsen, M. & Tamke, M. (editors.).Springer,p. 155-174

Plasticity of Scale: Architectural Typology & Contextual Understanding

Waterstone, J.&Marker, M.,30 aug. 2023,Envisioning Architectural Scales in the Analogue and Virtual Representation of Architecture: Proceedings of the 16th EAEA conference.Kreutzberg, A. (editor.). Copenhagen:Royal Danish Academy - Architecture, Design, Conservation,p. 279-290

Exhibitions

Archive of contextualism: IN THE MAKING / academy exhibition

Meldgaard, M.,Oxvig, H.,Lee, A. H.,Mottelson, J.,Frandsen, A. M.,Marker, M.,Kappel, K. A.,Tobiasen, R. S. T.&Højgaard, p.,31 okt. 2024

Architecture In Common - Leave No One Behind: UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 Copenhagen

Marker, M.,Waterstone, J., Gramkow, M. C., Støvring, J.& Vacher, M.,30 jul. 2023

Hephaistos: H 22 Helsingborg: Re:imagining the future nature of outdoor living

Marker, M. &Waterstone, J.,30 mai 2022Contributors: