After Anna Neimark’s introduction, Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston reminisce about their long engagement with SCI-Arc as a place where they met many mentors, colleagues and friends.

Mark Lee comments a range of residential work, including …
• A house for a car collector in the Valley
• Babcock, Social housing, La Courneuve (2017)
• The Ray set of residential high rises in arts districts in Phoenix (2022-6) and Nashville (2022)

Sharon Johnston addresses work in rural areas, including early renovation projects in Marfa, TX, and …
• Multi-unit housing, in collaboration with Christ & Gantenbein, En Sully, La Tour-De-Peliz, Switzerland (2009)
• A master Plan and the Grand Traiano Art Complex, Grottaferrata, Italy (2007-9)
•Research on different kinds of urbanism, i.e. art in the park (Serpentine, London), or art urbanism (Menil campus).
• A masterplan revisioning the Vitra campus.
• A new plan for Sea Ranch, rethinking communal needs
• A series of houses in Gallatin Forest, MT
• A masterplan and structures for Jasper Johns’ artists’ retreat, Connecticut
• A multi-structure residential project in Northern California
• An expansion of Powder Mountain ski resort, Eden, UT
• The Vipp pavilion, NY

Lee talks about …
• Whitney Museum Independent Study Program at Roy Lichtenstein Studio, NYC (2022-3)
• UCLA Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios, Culver City (2016-9)
• Hilbert Museum of California Art at Chapman University (2020-4)

Johnston discusses several exhibitions, and institutional and museum projects, including …
• A Speakers Corner for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale, and the 2025 Chicago Architecture Biennal
• A renovation and expansion of the Dallas Museum of Art (2023)
• A renovation of the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Philadelphia (2025)
• A renovation and expansion of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2015-7)

Lee concludes with comments on …
• A renovation and expansion of MOCA, Los Angeles
• Menil Drawing Institute, Houston (2012-8)
• A new museum and part in Fujian, China