Visiting Faculty
Marlon Blackwell
Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor, Fall 2009
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA practices architecture in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and serves as professor of architecture at the University of Arkansas. Working outside the architectural mainstream, his architecture is based in design strategies that celebrate vernaculars and that draw upon them, and that seek to transgress conventional boundaries for architecture. Work produced in his professional office, Marlon Blackwell Architect, has received national and international recognition, numerous design awards and publication in books, architectural journals and popular magazines including Architectural Record (with the honor of having the Keenan TowerHouse featured on the cover of the February 2001 issue), Architect, Arquine, A+U, Detail, Dwell, Metropolitan Home, Contract, Residential Architect, Architectural Review (2002 ar + d prize winner for the Moore HoneyHouse) and The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary Architecture (2004 & 2008). His residential projects are featured in design books including Masters of Light, New Country House, Houses of Wood, Private Towers, House: American Houses for the New Century, The New American House 3, and The New American Cottage. The significance of his contributions to design is evidenced by the publication of a monograph of his work entitled An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2005. Marlon was selected by The International Design Magazine, in 2006, as one of the ID Forty: Undersung Heroes and as an “Emerging Voice” in 1998 by the Architectural League of New York.At the University of Arkansas he has co-taught design studios with Peter Eisenman, Christopher Risher and Julie Snow. He has been a visiting professor teaching graduate design at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. Most recently, he was the Ivan Smith Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida, the Paul Rudolph Visiting Professor at Auburn University, and the Cameron Visiting Professor at Middlebury College. He was the Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St. Louis and has also taught guest studios at Syracuse University and Lawrence Tech University. In 1994, he co-founded the University of Arkansas Mexico Summer Urban Studio, and has coordinated and taught in the program at theCasa Luis Barragan in Mexico City since 1996. He received his undergraduate degree from Auburn University and a M.Arch. II degree from Syracuse University in Florence.
