Reception and check-in from 6:15 to 6:55 p.m. Lecture begins at 7:00 p.m
Join the Dallas Architecture Forum for a lecture with Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, founder of Blackwell Architects. Blackwell is a practicing architect in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and serves as Distinguished Professor and Department Head in the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas.
The significance of Blackwell’s contributions to design is evidenced by the Architecture Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the publication of a monograph of his work entitled An Architecture of the Ozarks: The Works of Marlon Blackwell, published by Princeton Architectural Press. Blackwell was selected by the International Design Magazine as one of the ID Forty: Undersung Heroes and as an “Emerging Voice” by the Architectural League of New York. Marlon Blackwell co-founded the University of Arkansas Mexico Summer Urban Studio, and has coordinated and taught in the projram at the Casa Luis Barragan in Mexico City. He received his undergraduate degree from Auburn University and a M. Arch II degree from Syracuse University in Florence, Italy.