photograph by Kevin Latady
Marlon Blackwell, was born in Munich, Germany in 1956. He is an architect
and a tenured professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.
Work produced from his private practice, Marlon Blackwell Architect, has received
national and international recognition through AIA design awards and architectural
publications including Architecture, Arquine, A+U, Detail, Dwell, Southern Living,
Architectural Record (with the honor of having the Keenan TowerHouse featured on the
cover of the February 2001 issue), Architectural Review (2002 ar + d prize winner for
the Moore HoneyHouse) and The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary Architecture (2004). His
residential projects are featured in design books including New Country House, Houses
of Wood, Private Towers, House: American Houses for the New Century, The New American House
3, The New American Cottage, and 40 Under 40. Princeton Architectural Press published a
monograph of his work titled An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell (April 2005).
Blackwell was selected by a national jury as one of the top 40 designers
under 40 years old in 1995. In 1998, the Architectural League of New York
recognized him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture. In January 2006,
he was selected by The International Design Magazine as one of the ID Forty: Undersung Heroes.
He has been invited to give lectures on his work at many institutions including
the Architectural League of New York, the Royal Institute of British Architects,
MIT, Arizona State, Cornell University, Tulane University and Washington University
at St. Louis among others.
He teaches fifth year design studio, technology, and design detailing
at Arkansas, and has co-taught design studios there with Peter Eisenman
(1997 & 1998),
Christopher Risher (2000) and Julie Snow (2003). He has been a visiting
associate professor teaching graduate design at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts
in Spring 2001 and 2002. He was a visiting professor at Syracuse University
(1991-92). He was the Ruth and Norman Moore visiting professor at Washington
University in St. Louis in the spring of 2003.
In 1994, he co-founded the University of Arkansas Mexico Summer Urban Studio,
and has coordinated and taught in the program at the Casa Luis Barragan
in Mexico City since 1996.
He received his undergraduate degree from Auburn University in 1980 and
a M. Arch II degree from Syracuse University in Florence in 1991.
