Timeline

2020 – Founded Bruce Mau Studio

2020 – MC24 Book Published; (Phaidon Press, 2020)

2019 – McEwen International Advisory Board Member, Sudbury Canada

2018 – 100th-anniversary CAFA, received honorary degree

2017 – Speaker and participant, Future Unknown: Global Education Summit, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), Beijing

2017 – Curator, “Prosperity for All,” main exhibit, EDIT: Exposition for Design,Innovation and Technology, presented by Design Exchange, Toronto

2017 – Visiting Professor, Graduate Architecture and Urban Design, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

2017 – Launched a new brand identity for the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC)

2016 – Awarded the Design Mind Award, National Design Awards, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

2015 – Collab Design Excellence Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art

2015 – “Work on What You Love: Bruce Mau Rethinking Design,” Philadelphia Museum of Art and Collab, Philadelphia

2015 – Chief Design Officer, Freeman Company

2014 – National Design Awards, Cooper Hewitt, Juror

2011 – Honorary Doctor of Arts, Columbia College, Chicago

2010 – Third Teacher Published (Abrams 2010), with Trung Le

2010 – Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Massive Change Network, with Bisi Williams

2009 – Louise Blouin Foundation Global Creative Leadership Award

2007 – William and Stephanie Sick Distinguished Professor, School of The Art Institute of Chicago

2007 – Distinguished Fellow Segal Design Institute McCormick School of Engineering Northwestern University

2007 – Honorary Doctorate, Laurentian University, Sudbury

2007 – Awarded the AIGA Gold Medal (Communication Design)

2007 – Artistic Director, In Good We Trust

2006 – Honorary Doctorate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

2006 – Massive Change Exhibit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2006 – Massive Change Exhibit, Art Gallery of Ontario

2006 – Published Spectacle (Phaidon Press), with David Rockwell

2005 – Launched the GuateAmala project, Guatemala City

2004 – Too Perfect: Seven New Denmarks, Danish Architecture Center, Copenhagen; Venice Architecture Biennial (Danish Pavilion); Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto

2004 – Massive Change Exhibit, Vancouver Art Gallery

2004 – Published Massive Change (Phaidon Press)

2004 – Launched environmental graphics and wayfinding for the Seattle Public Library

2003 – Founder, Institute without Boundaries, George Brown College (Toronto)

2002 – Published “Three Moving Projects, 1991-2002,” The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto

2001 – Honorary Diploma, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto

2000 – “STRESS,” a multimedia installation, curated by Hortensia Völkers, presented as part of Weiner Festwochen 2000, at the MAK, Vienn

2000 – Published Life Style (Phaidon Press)

1999 – “Love for Sale,” in Retrace your steps: Remember Tomorrow at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Group show curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist

1999 – “Book Machine,” installation and performance for Laboratorium at Antwerpen Open 1999, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Barbara Vanderlinden

1999 – Published “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth,” I.D. Magazine (March/April 1999): 56-59.

1998 – Awarded the Chrysler Award for Design Innovation

1998 – “Reading,” an exhibition of Bruce Mau’s work in conjunction with Living an exhibition of work by O.M.A./Rem Koolhaas at arc en rêve center d’architecture, Bordeaux, France (February 12 to May 17), Triennale Building, Milan (June 19 to August 29), Vienna Architecture Congress (September 21 to November 17)

1997 – Visiting Critic, Harvard GSD, Boston

1997 – Published “An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth,” rHed Magazine (Fall, Vol. 1, Issue Seven)

1996 – S,M,L,XL was awarded “The Best Design of 1996” from TIME Magazine

1995 – Visiting Cullinan Professor, Rice University, School of Architecture,Houston, 3rd appointment

1995 – Published S,M,L,XL, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau (Monacelli Press)

1993 – Creative Director, I.D. Magazine (New York)

1985 – Designed the Zone Books series

1981 – Principal, Public Good, Design and Communications Inc. (Toronto)