Mark G. Hampton Papers

Architect Mark Garrison Hampton, FAIA, was born in Tampa, Florida on July 17, 1923. He served as a Captain in the U.S. Army Infantry during World War II, and following the war he received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1949. After a brief period working in Atlanta, Hampton moved back to Florida in 1950 to become an employee of the influential Twitchell and Rudolph firm. When the firm disbanded in 1951, Hampton relocated to Tampa and started his own practice, which he operated for thirteen years. In 1966, he relocated to Miami and partnered with the firm of Herbert H. Johnson and Associates. He started his own firm in Coconut Grove in 1974.

Hampton was one of the Florida modernists who were collectively known as the Sarasota School of Architecture. He and the other Sarasota modernists were heavily influenced by the Bauhaus movement and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and their designs were adapted to the climate, landscape and vernacular architecture of Florida. Hampton received multiple awards from the American Institute of Architects and the Florida AIA throughout his career was recognized as a Fellow of the AIA in 1967. Notable projects include Galloway's Furniture Showroom in Tampa, the Lannan Museum in Lake Worth, FL, two science buildings for the University of South Florida, and Wolfsonian Museum in Miami. His residential designs included the Horizon House in Tampa, which received a National Design Award, and the Jordan Residence in Lake Wales, FL, which received a Test of Time Award. He lived in Coconut Grove until his death on February 28, 2015.