David Mayernik is an artist, architect, urban designer, writer and educator whose work is informed by the Old Master classical tradition. His projects range from sets for the Haymarket Opera company of Chicago to frescoes for a church in Tuscany to a campus master plan and buildings in Switzerland.
He has won numerous awards and competitions, including the Gabriel Prize for research in France, the Steedman Competition Fellowship to the American Academy in Rome, and the International Competition for the Minnesota State Capitol Grounds (with partner Thomas Norman Rajkovich); that project won an Arthur Ross Award. He was named in 1995 to the decennial list of the top 40 architects in the United States under 40 years old. Since 1996 he has been the campus planner and architect for the TASIS schools in Lugano, Switzerland and Surrey, England. His M. Crist Fleming Library at TASIS Switzerland won a 2005 Palladio Award.
David Mayernik is also a painter in oil, buon fresco and watercolor, and has painted frescoes for his own buildings in Switzerland and for churches there and in Italy. He studied fresco with renowned restorer Leonetto Tintori in Italy. His drawings have been exhibited internationally, and he has been featured twice in American Artist magazine.
David Mayernik’s book, Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy, was published by Westview Press (Icon Editions) in 2003 (paperback 2005). His essay on Giulio Romano’s architecture and frescoes at the Palazzo Te was published in Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture (Routledge, 2006). His chapter in the recent Green Living (Rizzoli; Sustainability & Tradition with Compendium in the UK) discusses the traditional relationship of the body and buildings, and his work for TASIS is featured in New Palladians (Artmedia Press). He is the co-editor with Taeho Paik of the online Humanist Art Review (www.humanistart.net). Mayernik is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the RSA (Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, & Commerce). He is an Associate Professor with the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame.
Abridged List of Exhibitions and Grants
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