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MH/A begins each project with the understanding that the questions which should be asked are more important than knowing the presumed final answers. The solutions will come at the end of a true design process, but only if the correct questions are developed at the start.

MH/A's integration of design aesthetics into the functional solution of the program at hand is of utmost importance. In the end, this direction becomes the primary goal of a process the firm is centered around engaging in the construction of architecture. To aspire to something different would be to resign the process to the idea that construction alone would suffice and that the need to engage an architect on the project would not be required.

As is evident in the portfolio of both built and proposed work, design is primary to the office. MH/A truly believes that lives can be positively affected by design, and that the task of architecture is to have this affect upon people.

Because MH/A remains an “emerging” design firm, the projects which are proposed to the office, and are most often undertaken, tend to be projects of unusual scope and constrained budgets. Working within these restrictions becomes a normal task for the office as well as a set of tools used to generate design. MH/A's ability to navigate the intangible world of design simultaneous with the real-world condition of budget has become a trait many past clients would attest to. As is often repeated in the process of projects of this type, the assumption on the part of MH/A is that the world is not an “eitheror” universe, but rather a “both-and”, and that one of the tasks of the architect is to discover the point in space where disparate arcs of issues actually coincide.

Founded in 1987, Mark Horton / Architecture is a design firm based in San Francisco, California. With a primary focus on architectural design, projects have also been undertaken which deal with planning, interiors, and design aspects related to the architectural process.

Mark Horton / Architecture is a licensed architectural firm in the States of California and New York.

2009 Gold Nugget Awards, Merit Award - Outstanding Retail Project Category

2008 AIA Redwood Empire Design Awards Program, Merit Award - Unbuilt Category

2008 AIA Redwood Empire Design Awards Program, Citation – Built Category

2008 California Home + Design, Acheivement Award – Commercial Design

2007 IIDA Honor Awards. World Savings Bank, Honorable Mention.

2007 American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, Line Journal: Editorial Board, Special Achievement Award

2006 American Institute of Architects, Northern Nevada Design Awards, Sugar Bowl Residence, Honor Award

2006 American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Design Awards, Cloverdale Cabin, Citation - Unbuilt Design Award

2006 Custom Homes, Residential Architect Design Awards. Sugar Bowl Residence, Grand Award

2006 California Home + Design. Sugar Bowl Residence, Achievement Award

2005, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Best of the Bay. Crissy Field Aviation Museum, Citation - Unbuilt Design Award

2005 Metal Architecture Design Awards.  Healdsburg II Residence, Honor Award

2005 Residential Architect Design Awards, Campus Housing.  California College of the Arts Dormitory, Merit Award

2005 Gold Nugget Awards, Pacific Coast Builder’s Conference.
California College of the Arts Dormitory, Grand Award - Best Low Rise Apartment

2004 American Institute of Architects, Redwood Chapter Design Awards. Healdsburg II Residence, Honor Award for Architecture
 
2003 American Institute of Architects, East Bay Chapter Design Awards. California College of the Arts Dormitory, Merit Award for Architecture

2003 American Institute of Architects, San Francisco Best of the Bay. California College of the Arts Dormitory, Excellence in Design Award

2003 American Institute of Architects, California Council. California College of the Arts Dormitory,
Merit Award

2002 American Institute of Architects, California Council.  2AES / 3A Gallery,Achievement Award

1997, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, Best of the Bay and Beyond. Healdsburg I Residence, Award of Honor for Design Excellence

1997 Gold Nugget Awards, Pacific Coast Builder’s Conference.  Market Street Housing, Award of Merit - Best Mixed Use Project

1997 Gold Nugget Awards, Pacific Coast Builder’s Conference. Market Street Housing, Award of Merit - Best Affordable Attached Housing Project

1996, American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, Interior Architecture Awards Program.  The Little School, Award of Merit

1996 SF Prize Design Competition, Civic Center Plaza, Honorable Mention

1996 Gold Nugget Awards, Pacific Coast Builder’s Conference.  Good Samaritan,Award of Merit

1994 American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, Computer Forum. Healdsburg I Residence, First Prize - Architectural Abstract Rendering

1993 American Institute of Architects and Sunset Magazine Western Home Awards.  Healdsburg I Residence, Citation

1993 American Institute of Architects, San Francisco, Computer Forum. Good Samaritan, First Prize - Architectural Delineation.

1993 Progressive Architecture Magazine. Young Architects

1992 American Institute of Architects, Redwood Empire Biennial Design Awards Program, Healdsburg I Residence, Merit Award

1992 I.D. Magazine Annual Design Review. Farallon Desk
Honorable Mention – Furniture

1992 California North Chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers Design Excellence Awards. Farallon Desk, Second Place - Furniture Design

1992 Blacksburg, Virginia Civic Center Competition. Honorable Mention

1992 Northern California Home and Garden Design Achievement Awards. Healdsburg I Residence First Place - Residential Architecture

1991 Metropolitan Home Design for Real Life Awards. Tansey Residence, Honorable Mention

1990 SF Magazine Best of Bay Design Awards. Healdsburg I Residence, Winner

1990 Mobile, Alabama, City and County Administrative Offices and Courthouse National Competition. Honorable Mention

1989 University of California at Berkeley, North Gate Competition. Finalist

1985 Rotch Fellowship. Finalist

2008 1000 x Architecture in the Americas, Verlagshaus Braun

2008 "Barn Storming", Design For Living, Fall Issue

2008 "Nothing but Boring Buildings in Modesto? Don't Bank on It", San Francisco Chronicle, 3 November

2008 "Modesto Commerce Bank", Design And Build With Metal.com, 28 October

2008 "Grape Expectations", Custom Home, March

2008 "Space Craft", California Home + Design, March

2008 "Mark Horton does doors not windows", Seam Studio Blog, February

2008, "2008 IIDA Honor Awards", San Francisco Business Times, 8 February

2007 Houses We Love: “Your Mother Should Know” Dwell, May.

2007 “House Of The Month : Healdsburg House” Architectural Record Online, April.

2007 “Gensler, Melander Snap Up 4 Awards”San Francisco Chronicle, 21 February.

2007 “IIDA 2007 Honor Awards” San Francisco Business Times, 16 February.

2007 “Modernity In Hyde Street Shack” San Francisco Examiner, 10 February.

2007 “A New Slant On Preschool” Architectural Record : Schools Of The 21st Century, January.

2007 “House On A Knoll” Crit, Issue 63, Spring.

2006 “San Francisco Treat” Hospitality Design, November.

2006 “Easy Living” Santa Rosa Press Democrat, 19 August.

2006 “Low Maintenance Living” Metal Home Digest, July / August.

2006 “Sonoma Wine Barn” Abstract, No. 37, May / June.

2006 “Inaugural Northern Nevada Architecture Design Awards, 2006” Reno Magazine, May/June.

2006 “2006 Design Awards” Residential Architect, May

2006 “Regional Architecture Projects Recognized” Reno Gazette-Journal, May 4.

2006 “2006 AIA San Francisco Design Awards” California Home + Design, May. “Discovering Your Home Away From Home”

2006 Arian Mostaedi, Preschool And Kindergarten Architecture, Links Books.

2006 “Branching Out” Contract, March.

2006 “Geometry In Light” Professional Lighting Design, February.

2006 “175 Bluxome Street” In-Form-Z .

2005 “World Savings Bank” Abstract, No. 34, Nov / Dec.

2005 Alaska Airlines Magazine, March.

2005 “Architecture” Sierra Heritage Magazine : At Home, Winter.

2005 Susan Solomon “American Playgrounds : Revitalizing Community Space” University Press Of New England.

2005 “2005 Design Awards” Metal Architecture, August.

2005 “Modern Metal” Metal Architecture, June.

2005 “Montessori Preschool Incorporates Elements Of Nature”  School Construction News, May / June.

2005 “Kids On The Block” Architecture, April.

2005 “San Francisco Design Awards” California Home & Design, May.

2005 “Modern Fireplaces” Sunset Magazine, January

2005 “A Weekly Dose of Architecture - CCAC Dormitory” Archidose, February 28. California

2004 “Metal Building Awards, 2004” Metal Construction News, July.

2004 “California College of the Arts” Abstract Magazine 23, January - February.

2004 “Having A Hand In The Seasons : Sugar Bowl” The Cabin Book, Universe Publishing.

2004 “A Submerged Ski House In The Snow” The Getaway Home, Taunton Press.

2004 “Coast To Coast”California Homes, January - February.

2003 “Contemporary Architecture Lures the Best Students to this Evocative Dorm Building” Architectural Record (Online), November

2003 “AIACC 2003 Design-Awards Winners” arcCA, February.

2003 “Learning Their Lessons In Building Off Campus”The San Francisco Chronicle, September 25.

2003 “Past Present Future : Sf Bay Area Architecture” Surface, Fall.

2003 “Repenser L’espace Des Nouvelles Generations” Interieurs, April-May.

2003 “A Weekly Dose Of Architecture - Ccac Dormitory” Archidose, April 14.

2003 “Four Sides To Every Storey” Blueprint, No. 203, January.

2003 Art-Sites San Francisco Sidra Stich, University Of California Press.

2002 “Clifton Hall Opens” CCAC News, Fall / Winter.

2002 “CCAC Opens New Student Housing Facility” The Montclarion, September 10.

2002 “CCAC To Welcome Its Largest Freshman Class”The Oakland Tribune, August 19.

2002 “A Clean Getaway” Mountain Living, December.

2002 “Re-Interpreting A Classic” Tahoe Quarterly, Fall.

2002 “Snow Place Like Home” San Francisco Magazine, February.

2002 “The Little School” Confort, No. 57, October.

2000 “Closing The Housing Gap” CCAC News, Fall / Winter.

2000 “It’s A New World (Housing) Order” Line, March.

1998 Hugh Pearman “Living : Houses And Apartments” Contemporary World Architecture.

1998 “Five Doors In A Tudor” Interiors And Sources, January / February

1997 “The Wall Of Academia” Interiors And Sources, October.

1997 “California Collective” Architecture, August.

1997 Peter Lloyd “House On A Hilltop” San Francisco Houses After The Fire.

1997 “Kleine Welt: Kindergarten In San Francisco” DBZ: Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, May.

1997 “New California Home Rises From The Ashes” Architectural Record, March.

1996 “Renaissance ‘96 : The Steyer / Taylor Residence” Remodeling, November.

1996 “Ten Points Towards Architecture” Oz, Volume 18.

1994 “Wenn Der Wein Mass Aller Dinge Wird”, Häuser, March.

1993 “Geometry On The Land” Sunset Magazine, October.

1993 “Young Architects” Progressive Architecture Magazine, July.

1993 “Bold Designs Forged From Fire” The San Francisco Examiner, 28 February.

1993 “Homes: From First Impulse To Final Product” The Oakland Tribune, 22 January.

1992 “Functional Form” Northern California Home And Garden, November.

1992 “Achter Ohne Steuermann” DBZ : Deutsche Bauzeitschrift, October.

1992 “The 38th Annual Design Review” I.D. : The International Design Magazine, July / August.

1992 ASID Awards, “Furniture Design” Northern California Home And Garden, April.

“1991 Suitably Scaled” SF Magazine, January.

2007 “2006 + 2007 AIA San Francisco Design Awards”, AIA San Francisco, Cloverdale Cabin

2007 “California College of the Arts at 100: Innovation by Design”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art California College of the Arts

2005 Summer Design Day, “SF Design Award Exhibit”, San Francisco Design Center  Crissy Field

2004 “Space / Face : Entries for a New Museum” 3A Garage Sonoma County Museum of Art
2003 “2003 Design Awards Exhibit” American Institute of Architects East Bay, California College of the Arts

2003 “Best of the Bay 2003” American Institute of Architects San Francisco, California College of the Arts

2002 “Making Spaces for Small and Young Children to Play” UC Berkeley, The Little School + Montessori Children’s School

2002 “CCAC’s New Dormitory - The Design Process” California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California College of the Arts

2002 “Small Firms Great Projects 2002,” traveling show to four venues American Institute of Architects San Francisco, California College of the Arts + Sugar Bowl + Cloverdale Cabin

2002 “Design Process - The New Residential Hall” Timkin Gallery, California College of Arts and Crafts

2001 “Drawings From Experience,” an exhibit of Masterworks from The UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design Archives and Art by Contemporary Architects. Limn Gallery, Tansey Residence
2000 “Small Firms Great Projects 2000,” traveling show to four venues. Falkirk Cultural Center,  Tansey Residence

2000 “Time Passed,” a retrospective of past shows at the gallery. Limn Gallery, Godry Residence

1998 “Unwon / Unsung,” Lecture Series on Unrealized Competition Entries. 2AES / Center for Critical Architecture Project: Project Atlas
1996 “Critical Foundations,” an exhibition of work by California College of Arts and Crafts Architecture faculty. Project: Tansey Residence

1994 “New Buildings: Rebuilding After the Oakland / Berkeley Firestorm of 1991.” San Francisco International Airport Museum, Tansey Residence
1992 “New Architecture in the Oakland Hills,” selected to show work in exhibit on new homes in the East Bay firestorm district. Limn Gallery, Tansey Residence

1991 Group show of architectural profiles. AP Gallery Project: Project Atlas

1990 “Architecture Represented / Furniture Realized,” selected to show work in exhibit of architectural drawings and furniture.

2AES / Center for Critical Architecture, Farallon

1989 “Project Atlas,” selected to show work in national competition. Storefront for Art and Architecture , New York.

1986 “Unseen Work: Six Emerging Local Talents,” invited to show recent work in series on art and architecture. Western Addition Project: SF Inventors