Christopher Marcinkoski

Biografía: Christopher Marcinkoski is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. Trained and licensed as an architect, Christopher’s teaching, research and professional practice are oriented around issues of contemporary physical urbanization, with an explicit focus on the public realm as a space of design intervention, inquiry and agency. In addition to his appointment at Penn, Christopher is also a founding principal of PORT—a Philadelphia and Chicago-based public realm and urban design practice. Since its establishment in 2013, PORT’s work has been widely published and repeatedly recognized by the American Society of Landscape Architects and the American Institute of Architects, garnering no fewer than 25 chapter awards of honor or merit since 2018. In 2020, PORT was recognized by the Architectural League of New York with their Emerging Voices Award­—an honor given to North American design practices with a significant body of realized work and the potential to meaningfully influence their field in the coming years. In 2022, PORT was recognized by Exhibit Columbus, with the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize an invited to develop a public installation for the 2023 Public By Design biennial exhibition. PORT’s work has an established national and growing international presence with recent work in Philadelphia, Chicago, Knoxville, New York, Cleveland, Kansas City, Denver, and Los Angeles, as well as in Mexico and Germany. PORT is currently leading both the landscape and architectural design of a new 110-acre central park in Bentonville, Arkansas as part of the Walton Family Foundation Design Excellence Program. In October 2022, PORT won an international design competition for the design of a new 85-acre public park on the site of a former horseracing track along the Boise River.