Meet the Faculty Host

David Mayernik ’83, Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Notre Dame, is an artist and award-winning architect. He is the author of Timeless Cities: An Architect’s Reflections on Renaissance Italy, and The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture: Between Imitation and Invention. A Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the American Academy in Rome, and the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, he is a winner of the Gabriel Prize for research in France. His work for TASIS Switzerland garnered a Palladio Award from Traditional Building magazine, and early in his career he was named one of the top forty architects in the U.S. under forty years old. For several seasons, he painted stage sets for the Haymarket Opera company of Chicago’s performances of Baroque operas, and he won the competition to paint the Palio for his adopted city of Lucca in 2013. A graduate of Notre Dame, he has taught design, theory, and drawing courses both in Rome and on campus. His course The Meaning of Rome on the edX platform had 6,000 students from around the world when it was live in 2016.

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