Mark Hackett

Mark Hackett is a Northern Ireland architect and co-director of the Forum for Alternative Belfast, an advocacy think-tank seeking to improve the built environment of Belfast set up in 2009. He was a founding partner in Hackett Hall McKnight, the architectural practice that won the UK Young Architect of the Year award in November 2008. He left the partnership in 2010, working part-time through 2011 to complete commitments. Hackett Hall McKnight won a number of national awards and in 2012 completed the £14m MAC arts centre in Belfast, a commission won in International Design Competition. He is a Board member of PLACE, the architecture and built environment centre for Northern Ireland. He has taught part-time at both the University of Ulster and Queen's University Belfast, and is an external examiner at Dundee University.