Fast Forward 2024: Marlon Blackwell (US)

Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning presents the Fast Forward lecture series. Fast Forward is generously sponsored by GIB® and supported by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects.
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Marlon Blackwell, Marlon Blackwell Architects (US)
Recorded on 24 July 2024 at Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Marlon Blackwell is the founder and principal at Marlon Blackwell Architects, a design firm established in 1992 in Arkansas, US. His design practice has been the recipient of numerous major awards and honours, including the 2020 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, the 2020 Southeastern Conference Professor of the Year, and the 2016 National Design Award for Architecture Design from Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 2014, he was named a United States Artists Ford Fellow (in Architecture and Design). In 2012, he received the Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2023 Blackwell was elected as a member to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Blackwell has taught at the University of Arkansas since 1992, where he is the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture and a Distinguished Professor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design. Blackwell has held visiting professorships at institutions around the United States, and currently at Harvard University.
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Supported by GIB®, the Warren Trust, and a Walter Linton fellowship, Blackwell visited Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning as the School’s 2024 International Architect-in-Residence. He taught a studio course and gave public lectures around the country.
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