MARK HORNBERGER, FAIA
Founding Principal
As Principal-in-Charge of Design, Mark Hornberger is responsible for the coordination and management of Hornberger + Worstell’s planning and design effort for all major projects, focusing on mixed-use high-rise, hospitality, multi-family residential, and corporate office projects. In addition, he leads the approval processing and public review efforts of the firm.
Over the last two decades, Mr. Hornberger and his design team have completed over forty major projects. These designs are focused on sites across North America, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim/Asia.
His design portfolio is distinguished by elegant adaptations of regional design vocabularies informed by modernist sensibilities. Light-filled architecture creates destinations of significant scale enjoyed by large numbers of clients and users.
Mr. Hornberger’s architecture consistently employs regional materials and geographically inspired forms to provide work environments, recreational amenities, lodging, dining, and meeting/gathering spaces. His gracious projects, with their focus on the relationship of the buildings to the landscape and cityscape, provide inviting access to scenic and city resources in a variety of urban and resort locales.
He combines his expert knowledge of mixed-use requirements with the firm’s regionalist sensitivity to context and materials. The projects derive their distinct identities from the thoughtful and innovative use of building materials and skilled local labor brought together with a considered use of advanced construction techniques.
The sense of place in his projects is heightened by an ability to achieve a seamless interplay between inside and out—his trademark “livable landscape.” He pioneered the design of outdoor function spaces and water features as integrated extensions of the architecture, allowing users and visitors to enjoy fully the unique climate, light and vistas of a particular region throughout the individual properties.
The success of his projects has won Mr. Hornberger the respect of his peers in the development and hospitality communities, where he speaks on design related issues for organizations such as the Urban Land Institute, Resort Forum. As a past member of the International Practice Committees of both the national AIA and AIA San Francisco, he has actively contributed his special expertise to discussions such as the US/Brazil Link Program. He has chaired the Design Awards Committee of the AIA California Council, and, from 1992 to 1994, he was Chair of the Architecture and Design Forum of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. He is currently Chair of the AIA Capital Forum and is a past Director of both AIA San Francisco Chapter and the AIA California Council.
His work has been widely featured in the design press, in journals dedicated to hospitality and development, and in the business press. As a spokesman for the impact of quality design on both the economic bottom line of the client and the visual environment of regional communities, Mark Hornberger presents a clear vision of the responsibility of the architect to create viable and regionally appropriate architecture.