Mack Scogin Merrill Elam

Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects is an American architecture firm based at Atlanta, Georgia. The two principal architects are husband and wife Mack Scogin and Merrill Elam. The firm was first founded in 1984 as Parker and Scogin, and later, from 1984 to 2000, as Scogin Elam and Bray, and from 2000 as Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects. The architects are well known for their modernist buildings, often playing on polemical themes. The architects have received numerous architectural prizes and awards for their works.

Mack Scogin studied architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1966. He is the Kajima Professor in Practice of Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where he was chairman of the Department of Architecture from 1990 to 1995. He also taught at the Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University in 2003–2004.

Merrill Elam first studied architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology, completing a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1971, before completing a master's degree in business administration at Georgia State University in 1982. She has also studied briefly at Harvard Graduate School of Design. She has held several positions in schools of architecture in the USA and Canada, including the Harry S. Shure Visiting Professorship at the University of Virginia in 2010, Visiting Chair in Architectural Design at the University of Toronto in 2005, Visiting Professor at Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University, 2003–2004, Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at The University of Texas at Austin in 2003, Visiting Professor of Architectural Design at Yale University in 1996, and Research Professor of Architecture at University of Illinois at Chicago in 1994.

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