Marshall Brown is an architect, urbanist, and futurist whose work creates new connections, associations, and meanings among disconnected architectural and urban remnants. His 2022-23 show,
The Architecture of Collage at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, was Brown’s first solo museum exhibition and most comprehensive presentation of his collages to date. Works from the show, exploratory essays, and additional pieces are displayed in a book of the same name. Brown’s work is held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Contemporary Photography and the University Club, both in Chicago. Brown has exhibited at the
2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, the
2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit,
The Arts Club of Chicago, the Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles, and in a 10-year survey,
Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects, at the Princeton University School of Architecture. His projects and essays have appeared in several books and journals, including
The New York Times Magazine, Metropolis, Crain’s, Architectural Record, Art Papers, The Believer,
the Journal of Architectural Education and
Log. Marshall Brown received his masters’ degrees at Harvard University. Brown is represented by Western Exhibitions. He is an associate professor with tenure at the Princeton University School of Architecture, where he directs the Princeton Urban Imagination Center. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.