About
Mark McGlynn is an architect whose work explores the relationship between care, time and construction. Through his practice, Public House Architects, he develops projects that bridge the domestic and the civic, often beginning with what already exists, the overlooked, the incomplete, the at-risk.
His approach is grounded in the belief that architecture is not an act of imposition but of listening. Each project is seen as a process of repair, physical, cultural and social where design emerges through close engagement with material, history and use.
Alongside practice, Mark leads the RE:Pair studio at Coventry University, a postgraduate design unit concerned with retrofit, heritage and the role of architecture in social and environmental renewal. Teaching and practice are treated as parallel forms of research, each informing the other.
Current work includes the ongoing transformation of a nineteenth-century water tower in Staffordshire, conceived as a long-form study in adaptive reuse and the lived experience of making.
Public House Architects operates with an interest in continuity rather than novelty in buildings that endure, evolve, and sustain meaning over time.