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Mark Jones

WS08 – Doors and Windows and Detail

Mark is a Chicago architect with nearly 40 years of urban sketching experience. Learning and practicing sketching was required when Mark was in architecture school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and students were encouraged and required to maintain sketchbooks during classes, filling the books with project ideas and designs, sketches, class notes, inspiration and urban sketches. A study abroad program in Versailles, France provided the focus to document his travels and studies through Europe.

Mark has continued the practice of urban sketching and joined Urban Sketchers Chicago in 2014. He has participated in or taught at each of the USk Chicago Seminars and has led sketching workshops for Mercy Housing and Thresholds. He has exhibited at the 2018 and 2019 Outside the Practice – Artwork Created by Architects and Designers, the 2023 Sweet Home Chicago and 2023 Ornament Is exhibit, all at the Bridgeport Arts Center. He has exhibited at the 2022 Rivers Edge exhibit at the Chicago Architecture Foundation and presented his sketches at the 2023 Pecha Kucha slide exhibit at Martyrs.

Mark is active in Urban Sketchers Chicago and the EveryOther sketch group and resides on the northwest side of Chicago.

Find Mark online at:
Instagram: @markjones4125