Mark Fram

Mark Fram is an architectural consultant, designer and urban planner. He has studied and written extensively about architecture, historic preservation, and the history and planning of buildings and cities; produced plans for numerous public agencies and private clients; built a large photographic portfolio; and designed and helped edit a number of books. These include Well-Preserved (Toronto: Boston Mills Press and Firefly Books, 3rd revised edition, 2003) and its companion edition in French, Conserver, un savoir-faire (Toronto: Boston Mills Press and Stoddart Publishing, 1993), as well as an award-winning historical atlas, Christopher Andreae’s Lines of Country (Toronto: Boston Mills Press and Stoddart Publishing, 1997), and a collaborative collection of essays on Toronto history, housing and architecture, East/West (Toronto: Coach House Books, 2000).

He holds professional and graduate degrees in architecture and geography from the University of Toronto. In addition to a consulting practice in planning, design and conservation, he has been an instructor at the University of Toronto in urban planning and human geography. He is completing a PhD dissertation on the afterlives of historical urban places in the Department of Geography and Planning.

He has been president of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, the Canadian Society for Industrial Heritage, and the Sharon Temple Museum Society, and was founding vice-president of the Canadian Association of Professional Heritage Consultants.