Marc Tsurumaki holds a Master of Architecture from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Virginia. He is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Architecture at Columbia University's GSAPP and has taught at a number of institutions, including Parsons The New School for Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Barnard College and Yale University as the Louis I. Kahn Visiting Professor. In 2002, Marc was named a Trustee of the Van Alen Institute and he serves on the Architecture, Planning and Design Panel for the New York State Council on the Arts.