*new location* Marlon Blackwell: Radical Architecture | Architecture Lecture
Due to a campus power outage, this lecture has been moved to the Berkeley City Club.
Cosponsored by AIA East Bay
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, discusses his architecture and design process and introduces the monograph Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects (Princeton Architectural Press). He will focus on projects in the public and civic realms that emerged from outside the established centers of architectural culture, illustrating the distinct and original voice of Marlon Blackwell Architects.
The Arkansas-based firm's iconic and award-winning designs span typologies, scales, and budgets by merging the universal language of architecture with the particulars of place. Blackwell will show how the work suggests an open-endedness, at once generous and provocative, and what a “radical practice” can be in the contemporary moment. A core principle at the heart of the practice, radical in its fundamental simplicity, is the assertion of the making of buildings and places as a constant, authentic focus.
About the Speaker
Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, is principal architect and founder of Marlon Blackwell Architects, based in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is also a Distinguished Professor and the E. Fay Jones Chair in Architecture in the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas, where he’s taught since 1992. In 2020, the AIA awarded Blackwell with the Gold Medal, its highest honor.
Free and open to the public.
If you require accommodation to fully participate in this event, please email bzar@berkeley.edu at least 10 days prior.