Mario Jossa, born in Rome, Italy, began his career at Skidmore Owings & Merrill (SOM), New York, where he collaborated on projects for Armstrong Cork Laboratories, Altman Department Stores and Texas Gas Company. Jossa’s projects include the Spanish Pavilion for the New York World’s Fair; the development of extensive master plans for the new towns of Sadat City and Nasr City in Cairo, Egypt, the new town of Bayonne, France and regional studies for the redevelopment of the Aquitaine region in France. Projects as the European Partner with the firm of Marcel Breuer & Associates in New York and Paris include the critically acclaimed Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the Hans Hartung Foundation, Antibes, and the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, Washington, DC. Jossa obtained architectural degrees from the Catholic University of America and the Polytechnic Institute of Milan, Italy. He is a member of the French Order of Architects and the Royal Institute of British Architects.