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Marlon Blackwell is the founder and principal at Marlon Blackwell Architects, a design firm established in 1992 in Arkansas, USA. He 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 a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is Distinguished Professor in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas and has held visiting professorships at institutions around the United States, and currently at Harvard University.

Supported by GIB®, the Warren Trust, and a Walter Linton fellowship, Blackwell is visiting as the Waipapa Taumata Rau University of Auckland Te Pare School of Architecture and Planning’s 2024 International Architect-in-Residence. He is teaching a studio course at the School, and this is one of three public lectures he is giving in New Zealand.

This lecture is organised by Te Pūtahi Centre for Architecture and City Making.