Architects

Marlon Blackwell is an architect and professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Work produced from his private practice has received national and international recognition through the AIA and Architecture Review’s ar+d design award programs. His work has been featured in a variety of architectural publications including Architecture, Arquine, A+U, Detail, Dwell, Southern Living, Architectural Record, Architectural Review, The Phaidon Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture, and a monograph An Architecture of the Ozarks: the Works of Marlon Blackwell, (March 2005). In 1998, the Architectural League of New York recognized him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture. Blackwell has also held visiting professor positions at Syracuse University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Edward L. Blake, Jr. is a landscape architect and founding principal of The Landscape Studio in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with a professional career that has spanned more than three decades. His work has been published in World of Environmental Design, 100 Years of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Ecological Planning and Design, Landscape Narratives, Modern Landscape Architecture, and My Mississippi. Blake has been a visiting design critic at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Auburn University, University of Arkansas and its Mexico Summer Urban Studio, Louisiana State University, Iowa State University, Mississippi State University, Tulane University, and the European Landscape Education Exchange in Pontlevoy, France.