Mark Francis is an architectural designer and installation artist based in Toronto and Barcelona.

Mark's creative design practice is focused on informal, participatory architecture, and incremental urbanism, subverting colonial legacies and seeking to legitimize other modes of urban social structure through the built form. His architectural and design explorations have focused on geometric building traditions, organic form typologies, and architectural vernaculars of the "global south", exploring their potential relevance towards fostering a new culture of user-generated urban interventions and place-making. At its core, this perspective towards the built environment strives to bring about more autonomy and a more vibrant eclecticism to the making of personal and public urban spaces in cities.

In early 2024 Mark completed the postgraduate 3DPA program at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain. He earned his Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia in 2014 and completed a BFA in visual arts at York University in 2010.

Mark was previously Installation Director for Philip Beesley and the Living Architecture Systems Group, where he oversaw numerous projects completed in Asia, Europe, and North America.

He is currently an experimental designer, architect, and researcher in Barcelona, Toronto, and Marrakesh.