Mound House in Marfa, Texas, designed by Johnston Marklee & Associates. (Photo: Eric Staudenmaier, courtesy Johnston Marklee)
Coral Courts Lecture: Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee
Sharon Johnston, FAIA, and Mark Lee are the founding partners of the architecture firm Johnston Marklee. Since its establishment in 1998 in Los Angeles, Johnston Marklee has been recognized nationally and internationally with over 40 major awards and numerous publications.
Projects undertaken by Johnston Marklee are diverse in scale and type, spanning 14 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Recent projects include the Menil Drawing Institute, on the campus of the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, which opened November 2018; a renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, which opened in September 2017; the new UCLA Graduate Art Studios campus in Culver City, California; and the design of the new Dropbox global headquarters in San Francisco.
About the Coral Courts Lecture
The Coral Courts Lecture highlights outstanding architecture practitioners from across the United States and abroad. The lecture is named in honor of the Coral Courts Motel, a now-demolished Streamlined Moderne motor court formerly located in St. Louis along Route 66. Past Coral Courts Lecturers have included Fuensanta Nieto, Ricardo Legoretta, Rafael Vitoly, Marlon Blackwell, Rick Joy, Billie Tsien, Julie Snow, Carlos Jimenez, Wendell Burnette, J. Meejin Yoon, Jeanne Gang, Francis Kéré, Gregg Pasquarelli, Brigitte Shim, Tatiana Bilbao, Georgeen Theodore, Sharon Johnston, Nasrine Seraji, Ginés Garrido, Odile Decq, Elena Manferdini, Georgina Huljich, and Toni L. Griffin.