About:

Mario Gooden is a partner in the South Carolina firm of Huff + Gooden Architects. A graduate of Clemson University, he holds a BS in Design and his MArch from Columbia University where he won the McKim Prize. He has also worked for Zaha Hadid and Steven Holl. Gooden's work has been exhibited widely in many venues including New York's Municipal Arts Society, the National Building Museum, and the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI). He has also taught at SCI-Arc, the University of Arizona, Columbia, and Yale where he was the Louis I. Kahn Distinguished Visiting Professor for the Spring 2005 semester. Gooden is now an Associate Professor Adjunct at Yale.

Articles:  (Selected from 1993 - 2006 )

“Built in context: like the firm that conceived it, Huff + Gooden's design for a museum at historic Virginia Key arose from the conditions surrounding it.”  Marc Kristal.  Metropolis 2006 May, v.25, n.9, p.142-[145],175,177.

“The open house and the three-week utopia”.  Architecture 2005 May, v.93, n.5, p.20-22.

“Huff + Gooden Architects LLC: beach residence, Sullivan's Island, South Carolina, USA 1996.”  A + U: architecture and urbanism 2002 June, n.6(381), p.66-[69].

“Huff + Gooden shapes a socially vital Modernism in traditional South Carolina.”  Lynn Nesmith.  Architectural record 2001 Feb., v.189, n.2, p 108-111.

“Sullivan's Island, Caroline du sud, Etats-Unis.”  Anne-Laure Egg. Architecture intérieure-Créé 2001, n.300, p.56.

“Making architecture happen outside major metro areas (conference center facility).”  Wendy Moonan.  Architectural Record 1995 April , v.183, n4. p. 26-31.

“Military base conversions: Washington Navy Yard.” Bradford McKee. Architecture. 1994 August, v.83, n3. p. 99-105.

“Focus on: refresher courses for schools.”  Charles D. Linn. Architectural record 1993 Aug., v.181, n.8, p.116-119.