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]

Selected articles

• "The Logic of Deconstruction". Oxford Literary Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 1978, pp. 70–77. ISSN 0305-1498
• "In the Midst of Psychoanalysis", New Formations 7, Spring 1989, pp. 77–87.
• "The Ugly", AA Files, 28, Autumn 1994, pp. 61–64. ISBN 978-1-907896-23-1
• "The Ugly", AA Files, 29, Summer 1995, pp. 3–6. ISBN 978-1-907896-23-1
• "The Ugly", AA Files, 30, Autumn 1995, pp. 65–68. ISBN 978-1-907896-23-1
• "Lo feo", Analysart, 17. Caracas: Instituto de Estudios Avanzados, 1999 (Spanish translation of "The Ugly").
• "The Insistence of the Image: Hitchcock's Vertigo", in Adams, Parveen (ed.), Art: Sublimation or Symptom. London: Karnac Books. 2003, pp. 3–26. ISBN 978-1855759145
• Introduction, The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud. London: Penguin Modern Classics, 2005. ISBN 978-0141183886.
• "Technology and Prosthesis", Hurly-Burly, Issue 5, March 2011, pp. 191–199. ISSN 2101-0307
• "La Arquitectura y sus Pasados", RevistArquis 2, Universidad de Costa Rica, 2012 (Spanish translation). ISSN 2215-275X
• "Paul Hirst and The London Consortium", openDemocracy, 15 July 2003.