Mark Cousins (writer)

{{Short description|British architect (1947–2020)}}

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Mark Cousins (8 October 1947 – 26 September 2020{{cite news |last1=Dillon |first1=Ryan |last2=Morris |first2=Mark |last3=Macshane |first3=Denis |title=Mark Cousins: Architectural theorist who captivated experts and enthusiasts alike |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/mark-cousins-obituary-theorist-architectural-association-b1202833.html |access-date=22 October 2020 |newspaper=The Independent |date=21 October 2020}}{{cite journal |title=Obituaries |journal=University of Oxford Gazette |date=5 November 2020 |volume=151 |issue=5292 |page=99}}) was a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He studied Art History at Merton College, Oxford and was a research student at the Warburg Institute. From 1993 he was the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Programme in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association.[http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/phd/cvs.asp?Categ=MarkCousins Architectural Association PhD Programme]. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926030547/http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/phd/cvs.asp?Categ=MarkCousins |date=26 September 2006 }} He was also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.{{cite web|url=https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/markcousins|title=Mark Cousins Lecture Archive {{!}} Biographic Details|website=Architectural Association School of Architecture|access-date=26 November 2023}}

He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys.

Cousins was the author of Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984); The Ugly, a series of articles published at AA Files (1995, 1996); the Introduction to the Penguin Edition of The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud (London: Penguin:2005).

Cousins gave the Friday Lectures at the Architectural Association for more than thirty years.