Earlier this month, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced that Fayetteville, Arkansas, architect Marlon Blackwell will receive the 2020 Gold Medal—its highest honor. The award recognizes those whose work has had an enduring impact on the theory and practice of architecture. Blackwell, a speaker at RECORD’s Innovation Conference in October 2019, is the 78th Gold Medal winner.
Blackwell grew up in an Alabama-based military family, earning his B.Arch. from Auburn University and M.Arch. from Syracuse University. He moved to Fayetteville in 1992 to teach at the University of Arkansas, and established his practice there in 2000. “Arkansas was the first place I lived and stayed awhile,” Blackwell tells RECORD, adding that moving to the state was “an opportunity to really put my head down and work with minimal distraction.” Along with E. Fay Jones, Warren Segraves, and Edward Durell Stone, his firm, Marlon Blackwell Architects (MBA), has helped put the Ozark region on the architectural map.
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