David Mayernik is a leader of the classical renaissance in architecture and the arts. He is a licensed American architect with international experience in campus master planning, traditional urban design, town planning, and classical architecture. His project list includes campus master plans for the TASIS schools in Switzerland and England, a new Gymnasium and Library for the TASIS Switzerland campus, a gymnasium and theatre extension, a classroom building, and an extension to the art studios at the TASIS England campus, and a campus for a school in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. He has won international competitions, including the commission to redesign the State Capitol Grounds in Minnesota in collaboration with Thomas Norman Rajkovich; that project won an Arthur Ross Award from Classical America. Named one of the top forty architects in the United States under forty years old for the decade 1986-95, he is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and winner of the Gabriel Prize for research in Paris. He is currently developing designs for new buildings for the TASIS campuses in England and Switzerland.

David Mayernik brings his design skills to a variety of projects in contexts that range from short and medium term charrettes to complete individual building design. His urban and master planning projects provide breadth to his building projects, and his building designs inform his master plans with a sense for character and materials.

David Mayernik is also a classical painter, working in oil, watercolor, and buon fresco. He has executed fresco commissions for the American Academy in Rome, private clients in New York, the Church of San Tommaso in Agra, Switzerland, and for his Library and Gymnasium for TASIS Switzerland. His work in oil on canvas ranges from plein air landscapes to humanist allegories.

He has written for scholarly and professional journals, and has recently authored the book TIMELESS CITIES: An Architect's Reflections on Renaissance Italy, published by Westview Press (now available in paperback). He is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA). David Mayernik has recently been appointed Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture.

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