Draft:John Marx

John Marx is a San Francisco-based American architect. He is co-founder and Chief Artistic Officer of the firm Form4 Architecture, established in 1998. He is a winner of the 2017 American Prize for Architecture  from the Chicago Athenaeum and the 2021 John Gates Percival International Prize for Literature from the Galena International Poetry Festival.

Marx has written extensively on the topics of design theory, especially on digital design, placemaking in cyberspace,    and the architecture of the metaverse. Recently, he has explored the relationship of gender and architecture.

He is known for his contributions to high-tech campuses and architecture of Silicon Valley. His design work includes VMware, Inc's Headquarters in Palo Alto, Netflix, Inc's Headquarters in Los Gatos, Nvidia's original Headquarters in Santa Clara, Santa Clara University Dowd Arts Building in Santa Clara, and the Gateway at Millbrae Station in Millbrae.