Mark Wise Visiting Assistant Professor B.Arch. and bachelor of interior architecture, Auburn University markwise@uark.edu 479/575-7297

Mark Wise earned his bachelor of architecture and bachelor of interior architecture from Auburn University in 2006. He is a product of Auburn University’s Rural Studio, a design/build program in west Alabama where he worked on the Lions Park Project. Lions Park is a 40-acre city recreational park in Greensboro, Ala. In 2005 the Rural Studio began a master plan for the park. The Lions Park Team executed the first phase of that master plan: four baseball/softball fields, backstops, dugouts, irrigation, lighting and earthwork. After the completion of his thesis project in 2007, he co-taught Thesis and Outreach students at the Rural Studio with David Buege for the 2007-08 academic year, helping oversee the design and construction of four $20,000 houses.

Most recently, Wise taught at Mississippi State University focusing in the foundation design studios. Wise has also worked at the Jackson Community Design Center doing schematic design for the Old Cola Plant LLC. Additionally, Wise recently completed a small design/build private garden in Starkville, Miss.

Wise will be coordinating and directing the Design Build Studio 2011/2012, overseeing the construction of the design build project, and teaching the supplementary seminar associated with the DB program. He guided the creation of last year's project, a two-story cantilever house on East Commerce Street in Little Rock.