Author(s): James Glisson (Editor); Marshall Brown (Editor)

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The first book on American architect Marshall Brown and his oeuvre at the intersection of architecture and art. Collage in architecture is most easily addressed as a conceptual approach or an aesthetic condition. Despite its consistent presence throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, collage has never been considered a standard form of architectural representation like drafting, model making, or sketching. The work of Marshall Brown, an architect and artist, demonstrates the power of collage as an architectural medium as well as an architectural practice. In Brown's view, collage changes the terms of architectural authorship and challenges outdated definitions of originality. This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in fall 2022, features some forty collages by Marshall Brown. The selection comprises images from his recent series titled Prisons of Invention, Maps of Berlin, Je est un autre, and Chimera, as well as photographs of Ziggurat, a temporary pavilion designed for the Arts Clubs of Chicago and based on the Chimera series. The full-color plates are supplemented with essays by critic and curator Aron Betsky, scholar of art history and archaeology Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Santa Barbara Museum of Art's curator James Glisson, and Marshall Brown that outline the conceptual foundations of Brown's intriguing oeuvre at the intersection of architecture and art.