Architect Mark Comeau is a native of Southeastern Connecticut whose firm has over thirty years of experience designing and planning diverse project types that have responded to complex programming.Having started his collegiate studies locally at the college he is now a professor at (now Three Rivers), he completed his professional architecture studies at Roger Williams University and his graduate work at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His professional work encompasses a myriad of projects including planning and streetscape designs as well as numerous commercial and residential structures that include: Beer’d brewing, Co. factory & tap room, Bravo Bravo restaurant, Fisher’s Island Ferry Terminal, Fort Shantok Public Park Facility, Mystic Landing, Mystic’s Central Hall, housing of various types, and a host of ecclesiastical designs and master plans. The firm has evolved to specialize in client-logistical solutions and sustainable design applications. Comeau’s work has been featured in magazines like Better Homes and Gardens and has appeared in many feature articles and trade journals.In 2014, Comeau published his history textbook, Architecture of the World (Kendall-Hunt ISBN 978-1-4652-4985-2), based on over twenty years of travel-study he has led all over the globe. The book’s 400 picture-centric pages chronicle and bring to life the world’s cultures and the structures they built, inspired by gods, challenged by geography, and responding to climate. The volume draws on over two decades of teaching, professional practice, continuous research, and countless expert-led on-site tours, cobbling together architecture, art and engineering while creating a pictorial journey that starts in ancient Egypt and ends with buildings today on the cutting edge.These cumulative experiences have shaped Comeau into a seasoned architect who sees spaces through unique eyes and designs buildings and spaces that are defined through careful capture from strategic vantage points, creating design solutions with true meaning and a “senso del luogo”, (sense of place).
Mark A. Comeau, AIA | Architect
Career satisfaction is a dream; having two fulfilling careers is a blessing. As “practitioner’, clients benefit from Mark’s academic experience where, teaching architecture at the collegiate level demands continuous currency with design trend and evolution, materials and systems, and building regulations and codes.
A quality marker and a clean sheet of Strathmore (above), though cathartic, allows for idea iteration and refinement but more importantly, the satisfaction of bringing a clients vision to life.
Professor Mark A. Comeau
As a college professor, students benefit form Mark’s decades of practice which serve as a catalog for experiential teaching - providing endless ideas and examples and establishing the basis for understanding project coordination, conduct and ethics, and team relationships.