Christopher Marcinkoski

AIA, ASLA (Affil.), FAAR

FOUNDING PARTNER

Christopher Marcinkoski is Founding Partner at PORT, where he leads the office’s urban design, landscape architecture, and planning projects. With 20 years of experience, his work focuses on strategically transforming complex sites into impactful, socially and ecologically dynamic public environments. He serves as PORT’s creative director, overseeing the office’s work designing and constructing charismatic, place-rooted public spaces that balance compelling human experience with long-term environmental resilience.

In addition to leading PORT, Christopher is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania Weitzman School of Design. The author of “The City That Never Was” (Princeton Architectural Press, 2016) and the forthcoming “Constructing the American Public Realm” (2026), his research and writing critically explores the economic and political complexities shaping contemporary urban built environments. Before founding PORT, Christopher was a Senior Associate at James Corner Field Operations in New York, where he led transformative urban design projects including Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Public Square in Cleveland, and the Qian Hai Water City in Shenzhen, among many others

Christopher holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University, where he received the H.I. Feldman Prize for Design Excellence, the Christopher Tunnard Prize for Excellence in Urban Planning, and the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Foundation Fellowship for Urban Design. He earned a Bachelor of Architecture from The Pennsylvania State University, where he was awarded the Faculty Prize for undergraduate thesis. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (2015 Prize in Landscape Architecture). In addition to numerous design competition wins, Christopher is also the recipient of the Emerging Voices Prize from The Architectural League of New York (2020), as well as the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize from Landmark Columbus Foundation (2022).

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