MARSHALL BROWN Contact Information PRINCETON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 3 College Road, Princeton, NJ 08540 T (646) 342-1559 E [email protected] www.marshallbrownprojects.com EDUCATION
2000 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Master of Architecture
2000 Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA Master of Architecture in Urban Design
1995 Washington University, St. Louis Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, Cum Laude
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION, LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
2018 - present Director, Princeton University Center for Architecture, Urbanism, and Infrastructure The Center supports collective research, symposia, conferences, publications, working sessions, public dialogues and curricular initiatives. The Director carries full responsibility for setting the agenda and managing resources. Year one accomplishments include expansion of the executive committee, outreach to new external partners, website rehabilitation,and initiation of transdisciplinary Urban Agent Boot Camp workshops for students and faculty.
2016 Co-Chair, ACSA Administrators’ Conference, Chicago Illinois Hosted annual conference of architecture school heads on behalf of IIT College of Architecture in collaboration with J. Meejin Yoon. Responsibilities were developing the theme, selecting speakers, managing the speaker budget, organizing and moderating panels for annual conference of architecture school heads.
2013-14 Director, IIT Master of Landscape Architecture Program Initiated Master of Landscape Architecture + Urbanism program; Recruited and hired faculty, recruited students, and worked with the Dean on fundraising initiatives; Represented program at national ASLA meeting; Developed and taught new first semester core studio and initiated program wide workshops for students on public presentation
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2018 - present Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ Associate Professor
2008-18 Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, Chicago, IL Associate Professor 2014-2018, Assistant Professor 2008-14
2005-08 University of Cincinnati School of Architecture and Interior Design Assistant Professor 2006-08, Visiting Assistant Professor 2005-06
GUEST TEACHING
2010-11 Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI Saarinen Visiting Critic
2009,10 University of Toronto Daniels Faculty, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Cities Centre Urban Design Workshop
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SELECTED HONORS + AWARDS
2016 Selected Exhibitor U.S. Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale
2014 Service Award Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Service Award
2011 Finalist Navy Pier Centennial Vision Competition with Martha Schwartz Partners and Davis Brody Bond
2011 Distinguished Alumni Award Washington University Department of Architecture, St. Louis, MO
2010 NEA Fellow MacDowell Colony, New Hampshire Eight week residency fellowship at America’s oldest artist colony
2010 University Excellence in Teaching Award Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
2010 New Faculty Teaching Award Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture and American Institute of Architecture Students
2008 Rotch Traveling Studio Grant Boston Society of Architects
2000 Ronald M. Druker Traveling Fellowship, Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
2011-present Professional Registrations: Licensed Architect, Illinois
2011-present MARSHALL BROWN PROJECTS, Inc. Internationally recognized architecture and urban design practice based in Chicago. Projects include Smooth Growth Plan for Washington Park Chicago; Finalist proposal for Navy Pier redevelopment; Dequindre Civic Academy project for U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale; Ziggurat Pavilion for the Arts Club of Chicago; Borock Residence, Brooklyn New York www.marshallbrownprojects.com
2012-18 NEW PROJECTS, Founder and Co-Director Urbanism studio and exhibition space in Chicago. Collaboration with curator Stephanie Smith
2009 Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Competition Design consultant to J. Max Bond Jr. for winning design competition team, Freelon / Adjaye / Bond
2003-05 Pentagram Architecture, New York: Project Designer Harvard Place House: 3500 sf Retreat, Ann Arbor, Michigan; Levy/Church Residence, New York
2001-03 Davis Brody Bond LLP, Architects and Planners, New York: Project Designer Police Emergency Garage at LaGuardia Airport, NY; Whitney Museum expansion, NY, joint venture with Rem Koolhaas & OMA; Valeo Technical Center expansion, Auburn Hills, MI
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PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC SERVICE
2014-18 Executive Committee Member and Vice President 2017-18 The Arts Club of Chicago
2015-18 Member Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council, Chicago, IL
2014 Member Cultural Plan Stewardship Committee, Chicago, IL
2012-14 Member Stateway Community Partners Board of Advisors, Chicago, IL
2005-10 Member Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn Advisory Board, New York
2004-09 Founder and Director Atlantic Yards Development WorkShop, New York In collaboration with New York City Council Member Letitia James .
ACADEMIC SERVICE
2016-17 IIT National Organization of Minority Architecture Students Advisor
2015-18 IIT College of Architecture University Faculty Council Representative
2009-18 IIT College of Architecture Library Committee Chair 2015-18
2011-14 Editorial Board Member, Journal of Architectural Education
2010-11 IIT University Diversity Committee
2010-18 IIT College of Architecture Faculty Appointment and Retention Committee
2011 Speaker at IIT TedX conference
2010 IIT College of Architecture Graduate Admissions Review Committee
2009-10 IIT University Minority Recruitment Committee
2009 IIT College of Architecture Graduate Curriculum Committee
2008-18 IIT College of Architecture Undergraduate Advising
2009-10 IIT College of Architecture Faculty Secretary
2007 University of Cincinnati DAAP College Lecture Series Committee
2006 University of Cincinnati Aronoff Center for Design and Art Tenth Anniversary Celebration Committee Co-chair
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INSTITUTIONAL COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
University Club of Chicago SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2019 Solo Exhibition Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2019 Solo Exhibition Princeton School of Architecture
2017 Group Exhibition Chicago Architecture Biennial: Making New History
2016 Group Exhibition Venice Architecture Biennale U.S. Pavilion : The Architectural Imagination (traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and A+D Museum, Los Angeles in 2017)
2016 Solo Exhibition Arts Club of Chicago: Ziggurat
2016 Solo Exhibition Western Exhibitions, Chicago: Chimera
2016 Group Exhibition Chicago Architecture Foundation: 50 Designers, 50 Ideas, 50 Wards
2013 Solo Exhibition Western Exhibitions, Chicago: The Center of the World
2012 Solo Exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit: A Concept for Future Development
2009 Group Exhibition AIA Descours, New Orleans: Xtraterrestrialcarpetobscura Collaboration with artist Dana Carter
2009 Group Exhibition 4th International Architecture Biennale, Rotterdam: The Arsenal of Exclusion/Inclusion
2007 Exhibition Advisor Municipal Arts Society of New York: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
2007 Solo Exhibition Soapbox Gallery Brooklyn, New York: UNITY, Alternative Development Strategies for the Atlantic Yards Collaboration with Anna Dietzsch and Alex Felson
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapter Brown, Marshall, “Planned Unit Developments.” The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion. Tobias Armborst, Daniel D’Oca, Georgeen Theodore, and Riley Gold. New York: Actar, 2017. 252-254.
Essay and Work in Exhibition Catalog Brown, Marshall. “The Architecture of Creative Miscegenation.” Make New History: 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, edited by Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston, Lars Muller, 2017. p. 120
Essay and Work in Exhibition Catalog Brown, Marshall. “Dequindre Civic Academy.” Log 37 (2016): 138-47.
Published Essay Brown, Marshall. “Chimera: The Architecture of Creative Miscegenation.” Journal of Architectural Education, v. 70, i. 22-27.
Project in Book Chapter Mileaf, Janine. “A Hurried Breath of Modernity.” The Arts Club at 100 Art and Culture in Chicago, 1916-2016. Ed. Janine Mileaf and Susan F. Rossen. Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 2016. 100-123. Marshall Brown’s Ziggurat project featured on page 123
Published Essay (online) Brown, Marshall. “Endgame: An Open Letter to the Guggenheim Helsinki Finalists.” The Architect’s Newspaper. The Architect’s Newspaper, LLC, 30 June 2015. Web. 20 Nov. 2016.
Published Essay Brown, Marshall. “20th Century Urban Revitalization : 10 American Projects.” Shi dai jian zhu = Time + Architecture.6146 (2015): 68-9.
Published Essay Brown, Marshall, “Difficult Territory.” Journal of Architectural Education, v. 68, i. 2, October 2014. 155.
Published Essay Brown, Marshall. “Possibilities Over Prescriptions: Pundits Speculating about the Design Commission for the Obama Library Need to Broaden their Perspectives.” Metropolis 33.10 (2014): 64,64,66,68,70.
Published Essay Brown, Marshall “Kick the Architectural Competition Habit.” The Architect’s Newspaper. 19 Feb. 2014. 14.
Published Interview Brown, Marshall and Stephanie Smith, “The Non-Concept City: A Discussion with Edward Mitchell.” Journal of Architectural Education, v. 66, i. 1, October 2012. 13-15.
Published Essay Brown, Marshall. “MASHUP CITY: Architecture Steals from Contemporary Music.” The Believer. July 2011: 35- 36.
Book Chapter Brown, Marshall, “The Ecological Evolution of the Atlantic Yards.”New Directions in Sustainable Design. Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky, eds. Routledge Press, 2010. 53-65.
Book Chapter Brown, Marshall, “Not Good, but Well Behaved: Notes on an Urban Insurgency.” Block by Block: Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York. Timothy Mennel et al., eds, New York: Municipal Arts Society and Princeton Architectural Press, 2007.
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SELECTED INTERVIEWS + REVIEWS
Project Citation Brown, Adrienne. “Architectures of Habit.” Dimensions of Citizenship, edited by Nick Axel, Inventory Press LLC, 2018, pp. 46–57. Citation of Marshall Brown Project’s Smooth Growth® Plan for Washington Park
Interview Wiener, Anna. “Picturing the Self-Driving City.” The New York Times Magazine, 12 Nov. 2017. 54-56.
Interview Mortice, Zach. “Marshall Brown Is Putting the Pieces Together.” Architect Magazine. Nov. 2017. 96-97
Exhibition Review (online) Messner, Matthew. “What Role Should Outsiders Have in Remaking Detroit?” The Architect’s Newspaper. The Architect’s Newspaper, LLC, 26 Aug. 2016. Web. 08 Nov. 2016.
Exhibition Review (online) Betsky, Aaron. “After Decades of Detroit Ruin Porn, America’s Biennale Exhibition Runs Riot.” Dezeen. Dezeen Limited, 30 June 2016. Web. 08 Nov. 2016.
Participant in Televised Documentary “10 Towns That Changed America.” 10 That Changed America. PBS, April 2016.
Interview (online) Adams, Eric. “American Cities Are Nowhere Near Ready for Self-Driving Cars.” Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital, 16 Apr. 2016. Web. 08 Nov. 2016.
Interview Gallun, Alby and Micah Maidenberg. “Reckless Abandon.” Crain’s Chicago Business.13 Nov. 2013: 1,8-11.
Interview Keeshin, Matthew, “Great Speculations.” Monument #116 (2013): 87.
Exhibition Review Corso, John J. “Marshall Brown: A Concept for Future Development, Sugar Hill Arts District Minority Report.” Art Papers March/April (2013): 28-29.
Interview Terry, Josannah. “Q&A Marshall Brown.” The Architect’s Newspaper. 23 Jan. 2013: 18.
Project Citation Angotti, Thomas. New York for Sale :Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2008. Citation of the UNITY plan for the Atlantic Yards in a chapter on community planning. 217-218.
Competition Review Kamin, Blair. “Navy Pier Picks Five Teams to Compete for Redesign of Pier’s Public Spaces.” Chicago Tribune. Tribune Newspaper, 23 Nov. 2011. Web. 20 May 2013.
Project Review Rogers, Christina.“Designers Develop Alternatives to Gehry’s Brooklyn Plans.” Architectural Record. July, 2004: 28.
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RECENT LECTURES + SYMPOSIA
2018 Panelist University of Kentucky - film screening and conversation with developer John Hantz
2018 Panelist 6th NYC Symposium on Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, C2Smart Center, NYU
2018 Invited Lecturer New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ - “Whatever is Worth Doing”
2017 Panelist Chicago Architecture Biennial - Chicago in Photography: Documented, Imagined, Abstracted and Remade
2017 Moderator Design Miami - Concept, Abstraction and Blackness
2017 Panelist Chicago Architecture Biennial - Public Gestures Symposium
2017 Panelist University of Toronto Third Coast Atlas Book Release Symposium
2017 Invited Lecturer Rhode Island School of Design - “The Hard and the Soft”
2016 Invited Lecturer Princeton University - “The Architecture of Creative Miscegenation”
2016 Invited Lecturer Chicago Humanities Festival - “Architecture and Time”
2016 Invited Lecturer Taliesin Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture - “The Architecture of Creative Miscegenation”
2016 Invited Lecturer University of Cincinnati - “The Architecture of Creative Miscegenation”
2016 Invited Panelist Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Pittsburgh - “Future of Mobility” Forum
2016 Invited Lecturer Arts Club of Chicago - “Ziggurat: An Architectural Chimera”
2015 Invited Lecturer AIA Ohio Convention - Keynote Lecture
2015 Invited Lecturer AIA Oklahoma Convention - Keynote Lecture
2015 Invited Panelist University of Toronto - “After Empirical Urbanism” Symposium
2014 Invited Panelist Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Hamburg - “The City of Tomorrow” Symposium
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CONFERENCES
2016 Invited Participant IoT Summit, Merchandise Mart Chicago
2015 Invited Participant Harvard University Graduate School of Design The Design Competition Conference
2014 Peer Reviewed Paper Presentation Urban Futures, Squaring Circles, Europe, China, World, 2050; Lisbon, Portugal “Scenariograms, A Video Technique for Visionary Urbanism”
2012 Invited Participant Washington University, St. Louis Urbanism(s): Sustainable Cities for One Planet MUD 50th Anniversary Conference
2012 Invited Participant Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Visionary Cities: Urban and Architectural Futures
2011 Peer Reviewer 99th ACSA Annual Meeting “The City Is Dead, Long Live the City”
2010 Invited Participant University of Michigan Taubman College Future of Urbanism Conference “Some Notes on Five Points Toward a New Charter of the Mashup Urbanism”
2009 Peer Reviewed Paper Presentation Dreamland Pavilion: Brooklyn and Development Conference, City University of New York “The UNITY Plan for the Atlantic Yards”
2009 Peer Reviewed Paper Presentation 16th Annual International Seminar on Urban Form, Guangzhou, China “Mashup City: the Hybridization of Urban Morphology”
2009 Invited Participant Inland Visual Studies Center First Annual Conference, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois “Leveraging the Heartland Myth”
2009 Peer Reviewed Paper Presentation Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon “There is no Such Thing as Community...or Planning: Six Notes on a Mythological Urbanism”
2008 Peer Reviewed Paper Presentation Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Fall Conference, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign “For_Getting Drawing: The Visualization of Architecture in Digital Media”
2006 Peer Reviewed Paper Presentation Center for the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region International Conference, Rabat: Changing Trends in Architectural Design Education “For_Getting Drawing: Toward an Architectural Pedagogy for Digital Media”
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RESEARCH FUNDING
2016 Solo Commission $15,000 Support from the Chauncey and Marion Deering McCormick Foundation for Ziggurat pavilion at the Arts Club of Chicago
2015 Coprincipal Investigator $100,000 IIT Nayar Prize - “The Driverless City,” interdisciplinary research on urbanism after autonomous cars
2015 Principal Investigator $5,000 Graham Foundation for the Arts Grant to Individuals Funding for continuing research on Smooth Growth® Urban Design
2008 Principal Investigator $5,000 University of Cincinnati Faculty Development Grant
2007 Principal Investigator $1500 grant from Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development, New York to develop the UNITY Plan for the Vanderbilt Rail Yards.
2006 Principal Investigator $10,000 University of Cincinnati Faculty Development Grant
RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
Fall 2018 Princeton SOA ARCH 404 Advanced Studio: Sanctuary
Fall 2017 IIT COA ARCH 201 Architecture III Studio (Coordinator)
Spring 2018 IIT COA ARCH 202 Architecture IV Studio (Coordinator)
Spring 2014 IIT COA Arch 420, Arch 593, LA 545 Studio: 21st Century Garden City (Return to the Middle Landscape)
2009-2018 IIT COA ARCH 520 Graduate Lecture: Introduction to Urbanism (Required)
Fall 2013 IIT COA LA 541 Landscape Studio I
RECENT DESIGN JURY INVITATIONS
2017 Cornell University AAP Thesis Reviews
2017 University of Tennesse College of Architecture and Design Thesis Reviews
2016 Harvard University Graduate Shool of Design MLA Thesis Reviews
2016 Princeton University School of Architecture MArch Thesis Reviews
2014 University of Michigan Taubman College “Research on the City” Jury
2013 University of Toronto Daniels Faculty MArch Final Studio Reviews
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