Mark Cottle is an Associate Professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Architecture. He teaches design studios, the first course in the theory sequence, and a seminar on the detail.

Trained as an architect, painter, and writer, his creative work involves a multi-stranded approach -- architectural design, art installations, critical writing, and teaching -- incorporating distinct lines of inquiry that intertwine at a number of junctures.

These intersections, or knots, are connected to a desire to expand our conception of the detail in the making of space, and to explore the robust role it can play in constructing experience of the built environment.

The primary venues for these investigations have been built design projects, exhibitions of artwork, and conference presentations and proceedings.

His design work has won numerous awards -- among them the Steedman Fellowship, the Dinkeloo Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome, the AIA Georgia residential design awards, and three ACSA national faculty design awards.

Art exhibitions include solo installations -- Travel Writing at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Body Doubles at Spiller Vincenty Gallery (Jacksonville, Florida), and love_box at RISD -- curated group shows at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Spiller Vincenty Gallery, the University of California in San Diego, and the SunTrust Plaza Gallery in Atlanta -- and On the Surface, a two-person show at Georgia State University.