JUROR BIOGRAPHY
Marlon Blackwell, AIA

Marlon Blackwell, was born in Munich, Germany in 1956. He is an architect, and 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, Residential Architect, 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 Masters of Light. Princeton Architectural Press published a monograph of his work entitled “An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell” (April 2005).

In 1998, the Architectural League of New York recognized him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture. He has lectured 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.

In January 2006, Blackwell was selected by The International Design Magazine as one of the ID Forty: Undersung Heroes.

He teaches fifth year design studio, technology, and design detailing at the University of 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.