Mark Cousins (8 October 1947 – 26 September 2020[1][2]) was a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He studied Art History at Merton College, Oxford and was a research student at the Warburg Institute. From 1993 he was the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Programme in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association.[3] He was also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and at Southeast University in Nanjing, China.[4]
He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys.
Cousins was the author of Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984); The Ugly, a series of articles published at AA Files (1995, 1996); the Introduction to the Penguin Edition of The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud (London: Penguin:2005). Cousins gave the Friday Lectures at the Architectural Association for more than thirty years.[1]