Mark Sexton
Bachelor of Architecture, 1980
Partner, Krueck & Sexton Architects
Before he graduated from IIT in 1980 with a bachelor of architecture, Mark Sexton had already worked at two top firms and worked on the Penguin Seabird House at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Later he went to Krueck & Olsen Architects where he worked on Chemical Bank and Hewitt Associates regional offices. In 1991, Sexton partnered with Ron Krueck to establish Krueck & Sexton Architects, the firm responsible for the Art Institute of Chicago’s Joseph Cornell Galleries, Millennium Park’s Crown Fountain, the Herman Miller showroom, the Shure Technology Center and the renovation of Mies van der Rohe’s S.R. Crown Hall and 860-880 Lake Shore Drive cooperative, as well as the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies building and the Chicago Children's Museum.
Sexton lectures worldwide, is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and, with Krueck, was named Chicagoan of the Year by the Chicago Tribune in 2005.
