Dr Vladimir Mako, redovni profesor Arhitektonskog fakulteta Univerziteta u Beogradu, predaje u oblasti Istorija, teorija i estetika arhitekture i umetnosti, i zaštiti graditeljskog nasleđa. Bio je Dekan Arhitektonskog fakulteta od 2006. do 2012 godine. Nekoliko godina je predavao na Fakultetu za dizajn Viktorija univerziteta u Velingtonu, Novi Zeland, kao i na Arhitektonskom fakultetu Univerziteta Crne Gore. Trenutno na Univerzitetu Donja Gorica po pozivu predaje predmete Istorija Umetnosti i Dizajn enterijera.Po pozivu je održao predavanja na više univerziteta u svetu i u regionu, između ostalog i na: Universita’ Sapienza di Roma, Facolta’ di Architettura, Dipartimento DIAP; Korean National University of Arts, Seoul, South Korea, Department of Architecture; Varna Free University, Bulgaria; ADSL week (Antwerp Design Seminars & Lectures), Antwerp, Belgium; National University of Singapore, Centre for Advanced Studies in Architecture, Department of Architecture; University of Auckland, School of Architecture, New Zealand.

Objavio je preko pedeset radova u časopisima i kongresnim zbornicima,veći broj poglavlja u knjigama i nekoliko monografija. Bio je mentor na izradi dvadeset Doktorskih disertacija na Arhitektonskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu.

Najznačajniji radovi u prethodnom periodu su:

• Sociological Dimension of Urban Plans:General Urban Plan of Priština from 1953, arh. Dragutin Partonić, (Coauthor Arber Sadiki), Facta Universitatis, Series: Architecture and Civil Engineering, Vol.17, no.1 (2019), University of Niš, pp.93-104. (ISSN 0354-4605)
• The Aesthetics and Attainability of Cultural Cohesion: The Metaphorical Compositional Structure of “Oresteia” and Acropolis of Athens, Athens Journal of Architecture, vol.5, issue 1, January 2019, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, pp.99-110 (ISSN:2407-9472-DOI:10.30958/аја).
• Lorenz Stoer and the Metaphor of Creative Power in Architecture,  Athens Journal of Architecture, vol.4, issue 1, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens (2018), ст.65-84 (ISSN:2407-9472).
• Ideology and Architecture: Aesthetic Rationalism and its Cultural Response, у: Architecture and Ideology, уредници: Vladimir Mako, Mirjana Roter Blagojević, Marta Vukotić Lazar, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne (2014), ст.13-26. (ISBN (10): 1-4438-5671-1; ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-5671-3).