From striking houses to a sprawling high school, Marlon Blackwell’s spare, inventively simple buildings are sprinkled throughout Northwest Arkansas. In Fayetteville, his design for an addition to the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas, where he is a professor, comprises a rectangular volume that mirrors the original Beaux Arts structure in plan, but introduces a contemporary look in elevation. A few miles away in Springdale, Blackwell converted a common metal shed into a surprising Eastern Orthodox church. Now, farther north, in Rogers, Blackwell’s firm, Marlon Blackwell Architects (MBA), again demonstrates how to do more with less in its most recent project.
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