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Marshall Brown

b. 1973

American architect (born 1973)

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About Marshall Brown

Born 1973. Marshall Brown is an American architect and university teacher.

Marshall Brown is an American professor of architecture at Princeton University and principal of Marshall Brown Projects, Inc.

Career A New Jersey native, Brown graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1995 and earned master's degrees in architecture and in architecture and urban design from Harvard University. and promoted to full professor in 2023. He also directs the Urban Imagination Center at Princeton.

For a number of years, Brown has been working on a large-scale plan for the South Side that he calls “Smooth Growth Urbanism.”

Architectural collage artwork Brown's works of architectural collage are in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Art Institute of Chicago, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College Chicago. From March 27, 2026 to May 30, 2026, he had a solo show of collages with Western Exhibitions in Chicago, his fifth with the gallery.

Brown has had solo exhibitions at SFMOMA (August 2023 to July 2024) and at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (October 2022 to January 2023).

Publications Brown is the author of two monographs, Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects, which was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2022 and The Architecture of Collage: Marshall Brown, which was co-published by Park Books in 2022 with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

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1973, Newark
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Education
Washington University in St. Louis, Harvard University
Employers
Illinois Institute of Technology, Princeton University

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Frequently asked questions

Who is Marshall Brown?

American architect (born 1973)

When was Marshall Brown born?

Marshall Brown was born in 1973 in Newark.

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Marshall Brown is an architect and university teacher.

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Marshall Brown is American.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Marshall Brown

· Wikidata: Q104414536

· DBpedia: Marshall Brown (architect)

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