Marlon Blackwell and Meryati Johari Blackwell

摘要

When A project by Arkansas architect Marlon Blackwell was first shown on the cover of this magazine in February 2001, it was part of an issue on the theme "Out There ... Architecture Outside the Centers of Fashion." In spite of the somewhat supercilious headline, it helped put Blackwell's highly contextual approach to modern architecture on the map. A decade and a half later, Blackwell couldn't be more front and center: last month Marlon Blackwell Architects won the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum's National Design Awards for architecture. The firm will accept the award at a gala on October 20 at the Cooper Hewitt in New York, record spoke to Blackwell and Meryati Johari Blackwell, co-principal (the two are also married), over the phone from their Fayetteville office. How did you hear the news of your National Design Award?