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Mark Vornberg has worked at Dick Clark + Associates for 28 years\, and has been the Principal since 2017. \; DC+A does both residential and commercial architecture and Dick Clark is known as the godfather of Modern Architecture in Austin. \; Mark has headed the DC+A commercial efforts for many years and has lead the design of dozens of restaurants\, bars\, offices\, retail\, multi-family mixed-use\, and even a few hotels.
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In addition to his day job designing and managing at DC+A\, Mark has used his extensive knowledge of the land development code to pursue residential and commercial development in Central Austin as a side hobby and in now a serial enterpeneur. \; Initially this started as doing residential renovations in the urban core\, then later ground up residential and ADU combo property or two as successes created some cash flow. \; Mark tends to go all in on these projects. \; In 2015\, Mark and his wife developed their first commercial project\, a boutique hotel called Hotel Eleven on East 11th street\, which they owned and his wife ran until 2022. \; They even lived on site at the hotel for many years. \;
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Along the way Mark established the Architect as Developer Happy Hour\, a group of Architects and related consultants that has monthly Happy Hour meetings to help spread the opportunities to develop financially viable and well designed projects. \; The Architect as Developers mission statement is simply &ldquo\;Showing that well designed projects can make money too.&rdquo\; \;In 2019\, Mark spearheaded Dick Clark + Associates to renovate a old pawn shop on East 7th street to be their new offices and moved the firm to East Austin from downtown. \;
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After the success of that office project\, DC+A has partnered with a several other related Real Estate and Construction firms and is currently developing a 4 story\, 50\,000 s.f. office a couple blocks away to move all these related groups into as owner occupiers\, and a one stop shop of design and construction. \; That new project\, called Workbench\, is designed as mass timber and slated to be completed at the end of 2025.
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