Architect, Artist & Scholar; Full Professor at Princeton University School of Architecture; Principal of Marshall Brown Projects; Author of "Recurrent Visions"
Marshall Brown Biography
Marshall Brown is an architect, artist, and scholar whose work explores the intersection of architecture and visual art. Brown is a full professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he directs the Princeton Urban Imagination Center. He is also the principal of Marshall Brown Projects, a design practice focused on architecture and urbanism.
Brown holds master's degrees in architecture and urban design from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, where he received the Druker Fellowship for urban design. His artistic practice includes large-scale collages that examine the relationships between architecture, power, and world-building. Brown appropriates images from artists and photographers who document the built environment, reconstructing them into new spatial and pictorial compositions on prepared panels and archival paper. His collages often combine architectural photography from monographs on figures such as Enric Miralles, Gregory Ain, and Zaha Hadid, creating new works that challenge conventional definitions of architectural authorship and originality.
Brown has published two monographs: "Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects" and "The Architecture of Collage." The latter accompanied the exhibition "The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown" at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, which featured works from his collage series including Chimera, Je est un autre, Prisons of Invention, and Piranesian Maps of Berlin. Solo museum exhibitions include SFMOMA and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
His work is included in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Brown represented the United States at the international architecture exhibition of the Venice Biennale and has exhibited at the Chicago Architecture Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, The Arts Club of Chicago, and the Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles. He appeared in the PBS documentary "Ten Towns that Changed America."
Brown has received a Graham Foundation grant and a MacDowell Fellowship. He has been a featured speaker at the Chicago Humanities Festival and was interviewed by New York Times Magazine for research on driverless cities. Brown has lectured at the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, the Graham Foundation, Auburn University, the University of Toronto, and Harvard University. His projects and essays have been published in Architectural Record, New York Times Magazine, Chicago Tribune, Log, Metropolis, Architect Magazine, Art Papers, and other publications. Brown's work continues to engage with architecture, urban design, and visual art, contributing to ongoing conversations in these fields.
Marshall Brown Speaking Topics
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Making Space for the Future
Everything real was once a dream. The buildings and cities we design today will be built in the future. Through his cutting-edge design practice, Marshall Brown has been creating architectural visions for the future for over two decades. From the scale of the house to the city, Brown presents audiences with challenging visions that will expand their imagination of what architecture and cities can be.
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Driverless Cities
How can we use driverless technology to turn our 20th-century transportation infrastructure into 21st-century human infrastructure? Given the record investment levels in driverless technology in recent years across both the automotive and tech industries, there can be little doubt about the oncoming mobility revolution. Less certain, however, is what physical shape this revolution will take and how we will live differently.
Marshall Brown has worked with transportation engineers, landscape architects, urban designers, sociologists, design researchers, and planning lawyers to develop conceptual tools, technical experiments, stakeholder engagements, policy assessments, and visionary proposals that provide the first outlines of the Driverless City. As municipalities around the world try to grasp the practical opportunities and policy impacts of these new machines, Marshall Brown is presenting social scenarios, technical solutions, and infrastructural prototypes.
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