UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Marshall Brown, an architect, urban designer and artist who is both the principal of Marshall Brown Projects Inc. and an associate professor at the Princeton University School of Architecture, will present a Kossman Lecture as a guest of the Penn State Department of Architecture at 6 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Stuckeman Family Building Jury Space at University Park.

The event, which is part of the Stuckeman School’s Lecture and Exhibit Series, is free and open to the public and also will be livestreamed by WPSU.

In “Recurrent Visions,” Brown will present cross-disciplinary explorations that leverage the possibilities of scale, media and time in a survey of three seminal projects for New York, Chicago and Detroit.

At Princeton, Brown directs the Princeton Urban Imagination Center, which initiates projects that “reimagine cities.” Prior to his appointment at Princeton, he was an associate professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he directed the Driverless City Project.
 

Brown has been awarded a Graham Foundation grant, a MacDowell Fellowship, and has represented the United States at the Venice Architecture Biennale. His work is in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography, and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

Brown’s first book, “Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects,” will be published in May 2022 by Princeton Architectural Press, and his second book, “Marshall Brown, The Architecture of Collage,” will be published in October 2022 by Park Books in conjunction with a solo exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

He has lectured widely at institutions including the Cranbrook Academy of Art, the University of Michigan, Northwestern University, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He also has served as a member of the Chicago mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council and as vice president of the Arts Club of Chicago.

Brown earned his bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis and master's degrees in both architecture and urban design from Harvard University, where he also held the Druker Fellowship for urban design.