"WORLDMAKING: The architect as a civic visionary" with Marshall Brown
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Mediatheque (Room 200), 1 Spadina Crescent
Registration is not required for this event.
Marshall Brown is a licensed architect, urbanist, and principal of Marshall Brown Projects in Chicago. He is also an Associate Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received concurrent master’s degrees in both architecture and urban design from Harvard University. Among other accomplishments, Brown is a Graham Foundation grantee, a MacDowell Fellow, and was selected for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. He has also exhibited at the Arts Club of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles, and the Chicago Architecture Biennial. His projects and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Log, Metropolis, Crain’s, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Art Papers, The Believer and other publications. Brown has lectured widely, at institutions including the Cranbrook Academy of Art, University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Princeton University, and the Rhode Island School of Design. Brown currently serves as a member of the Chicago Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council and as Vice President of the Arts Club of Chicago.