David Mayernik (architect)

David Mayernik (architect) studied at Allentown Central Catholic High School and University of Notre Dame. Places of work recorded in the authority are South Bend and Lucca. Works named in the authority record are M. Crist Fleming Library, Timeless Cities: An Architect's Reflections On Renaissance Italy and The Challenge of Emulation in Art and Architecture: Between Imitation and Invention. Distinctions recorded are Arthur B. Ross Award, James Harrison Steedman Fellowship in Architecture, Palladio Award and Gabriel Prize.

• Name — David Mayernik • Honorific Suffix — FAAR, FRSA • Website — www.davidmayernik.com

David Thomas Mayernik is one of two children born to Emma C. Dalmas Mayernik, an artist and poet, and Joseph Mayernik, a homebuilder and improviser. A grandfather had been a stonemason in the Veneto region of Italy. As a young student Mayernik was always drawing, and in 7th grade he represented his school in a mural project for a new parking garage in Allentown. Mayernik graduated from Allentown Central Catholic High School in 1978. He then earned a B.Arch. from the University of Notre Dame's School of Architecture cum laude in 1983.

Mayernik and design partner Thomas N. Rajkovich won the 1986 international landscape design competition to design the Minnesota state capitol grounds, and precinct bridges in St. Paul. The project received a special award from the Minnesota chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and an Arthur Ross award from the Classical America Society in 1987. Mayernik then took the Steedman prize for a fellowship year at the American Academy in Rome from 1988 to 1989. In 1995 he was named one of "40 Under 40" young designers by a jury chaired by architect Robert A. M. Stern, and including Walter Chatham, and Frances Halsband. He is a past member of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU), founded by Charles III. He is professor emeritus of the architecture faculty of the University of Notre Dame, where he taught both in South Bend, Indiana, and Rome, Italy. He also taught in the graduate fine art program of the New York Academy of Art, at the Institute for the Study of Classical Architecture, and with the University of Virginia's Erasmus-Jefferson Scholars Summer in Tuscany program. Mayernik is the architect and campus planner for the TASIS schools of Lugano, Switzerland, Surrey, UK, and Sintra, Portugal. In 2016 he received an INTBAU Excellence Award, honourable mention, for urban design, and a jury prize in the Prix Européen d’Architecture Philippe Rotthier, in 2014. As noted above, his design of the M. Crist Fleming library at TASIS Switzerland also won Traditional Building magazine's 2005 Palladio award. As an artist he paints in oil, watercolor, and the Italian wet-plaster technique buon fresco, having studied with Italian artist Leonetto Tintori. Buildings he designs, and some Italian churches and opera sets, have featured his frescoes. In 2013 he won a competition in Lucca, Tuscany, to paint its Palio for the feast of San Paolino (Saint Paulinus of Antioch, an early bishop of Lucca).

He and his wife live in Italy and the United States.