Curriculum Vitae
Marshall Brown — b. 1973, East Orange, NJ — lives and works in Princeton, NJ
Education
2000
Master of Architecture in Urban Design
Harvard University Graduate School of Design — Druker Fellowship in Urban Design
1999
Master of Architecture
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
1995
Bachelor of Arts
Washington University in St. Louis
Academic Positions
2023–
Full Professor of Architecture
Princeton University School of Architecture
2018–23
Associate Professor of Architecture (with tenure)
Princeton University School of Architecture — Director, Center for Architecture, Urbanism, and Infrastructure
2008–18
Associate Professor, College of Architecture
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago — Director, Driverless City Project
2010–11
Cranbrook Saarinen Visiting Critic
Cranbrook Academy of Art
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Palaces and Prisons
Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2023–24
Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2023
Remastériser
Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2022–23
The Architecture of Collage
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
2022
Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects
Princeton University School of Architecture
2019
Je est un autre
Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2013
Center of the World
Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2016
Chimera
Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2016
Ziggurat
The Arts Club of Chicago (commission)
Group Exhibitions
2026
Spaces for People, Systems for Spaces
Western Exhibitions, Chicago
2024–25
The Persistence of Hand Drawing: Interior Rendering Today
NYSID Gallery, New York
2017
Chicago Architecture Biennial
Chicago Cultural Center
2017
The Architectural Imagination
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
2016
The Architectural Imagination — U.S. Pavilion
15th Venice Architecture Biennale
2016
The Architectural Imagination
Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles
Public Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
University Club of Chicago
Awards & Grants
2022
Graham Foundation Individual Grant
For The Architecture of Collage
2015
Graham Foundation Individual Grant
For Smooth Growth Urban Design
2010
MacDowell Fellowship
MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, New Hampshire
2000
Druker Fellowship in Urban Design
Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Books
2023
The Art Institute of Chicago Field Guide to Photography and Media
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago. Featured artist.
2022
The Architecture of Collage
Park Books / Scheidegger & Spiess, Zurich. Co-edited with James Glisson. ISBN 978-3-03860-262-5
2022
Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects
Princeton Architectural Press, New York. Co-authored with Karen Kice. ISBN 978-1-64896-068-0
Selected Press
2024
"Professor Marshall Brown Pieces Together Architecture With Collage"
Princeton Alumni Weekly
2023
"Architecture: Marshall Brown — Remastériser"
Musée Magazine
2023
"The lines between art, architecture and design blur"
New City
2022
"The Unexpected Detours of Marshall Brown's Architectural Collages"
Hyperallergic
2022
Must-see exhibitions
The Architect's Newspaper
2022
2022 Individual Grant announcement
The Architect's Newspaper / Graham Foundation
2017
Driverless City Project feature
The New York Times Magazine
2017
Chicago Design Guide designer pick
Metropolis
2016
U.S. Pavilion preview
Architectural Record
2016
Chicago's "Return to Splendour"
Monocle
2016
Venice Biennale coverage
Smithsonian Magazine
2016
Ten Towns That Changed America
PBS Documentary
Acquisitions
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Art Institute of Chicago
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art — Ziggurat (2016) and works on paper
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago