Mark Cousins (8 October 1947 – 26 September 2020 ) was a British cultural critic and architectural theorist. He studied Art History at Merton College, Oxford and was a research student at the Warburg Institute. From 1993 he was the Director of General Studies and Head of the Graduate Programme in Histories and Theories at the Architectural Association. He was also Visiting Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. He co-founded the London Consortium along with Paul Hirst, Colin MacCabe, and Richard Humphreys. Cousins was the author of Michel Foucault, co-written with Athar Hussain (London: Macmillan, 1984); The Ugly, a series of articles published at AA Files (1995, 1996); the Introduction to the Penguin Edition of The Unconscious by Sigmund Freud (London: Penguin:2005). Cousins gave the Friday Lectures at the Architectural Association for more than thirty years.

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