In this video entitled Building Between, Marlon Blackwell advocates for a kind of regionalism which isn?t as divisive as ?regionalism.? As a 24-year resident of Arkansas, he recalls his work and process in a place which he states is both ?an environment of natural beauty and a place of real constructed ugliness??showing the nuanced and self-critical awareness of place beyond the utopian glorification of genius loci which earlier this year earned him the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture.

In this video entitled Building Between, Marlon Blackwell advocates for a kind of regionalism which isn?t as divisive as ?regionalism.? As a 24-year resident of Arkansas, he recalls his work and process in a place which he states is both ?an environment of natural beauty and a place of real constructed ugliness??showing the nuanced and self-critical awareness of place beyond the utopian glorification of genius loci which earlier this year earned him the 2016 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture.
Most architecture isn?t very good, and most good architecture is good enough for most days, but there is some architecture which should rise above the everyday. In their often maligned context in Middle America, Blackwell?s projects inject life and cultural vitality, with the most notable examples being the St. Nicholas Church and the Fayetteville Montes...