Architect Marshall Brown to Present 'Je Est un Autre' Lecture on Jan. 23 at Crystal Bridges

Photo courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

The sculpture "Ziggurat" is on display in the North Forest at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Marshall Brown will present a lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, as part of the museum's Spotlight Talk series and the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.

Brown is an architect and principal of Marshall Brown Projects in Chicago. He is an associate professor and director of the Center for Architecture, Urbanism, and Infrastructure at Princeton University.

During his lecture, "Je Est un Autre," Brown will discuss his recent projects, exhibitions and his work at the intersection of art and architecture.

Brown received a Bachelor of the Arts from Washington University in St. Louis and master's degrees in both architecture and urban design from Harvard University.

His most recent commissions include a garden folly for the Arts Club of Chicago and a housing master plan for the former site of Robert Taylor Homes on the south side of Chicago.

Brown is a Graham Foundation grantee, a MacDowell Fellow, and has exhibited in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. 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 and other publications. His works are in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Photography and the Art Institute of Chicago.

This lecture is a collaboration with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and is sponsored by Ken and Liz Allen.

The public is invited to attend. Admission is free, with limited seating. Registration is recommended through the Crystal Bridges ticket link.

For more information, call Crystal Bridges at 479-657-2335 or visit their website.