Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, is a practicing architect in Fayetteville, Arkansas and serves as the E. Fay Jones Distinguished Professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas.

Marlon is the recipient of the 2020 AIA Gold Medal, the Institute’s highest honor, which recognizes those whose work has had an enduring impact on the theory and practice of architecture. He was a 2019 Resident Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, inducted into the 2018 National Academy of Design, and received the E. Fay Jones Gold Medal from the Arkansas AIA in 2017. A monograph of his early work entitled “An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell” was 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.

This lecture is possible because of the C.H. Monzel Research & Education Endowment Fund.