Marlon Blackwell (born November 7, 1956) is an American architect and university professor in Arkansas.

[1] He is founder and principal at Marlon Blackwell Architects, a design firm established in 1992 in Fayetteville.

[2] During college, he spent five summers in the rural South as a Bible salesman for the Thomas Nelson Publishing Company.

[3] Sixteen projects by Blackwell's firm have been recognized with national awards by The American Institute of Architects (AIA), including the AIA Honor Awards for Thaden School (with EskewDumezRipple and Andropogon Associates) (2023), The Lamplighter School Innovation Lab (2021), Shelby Farms Park (with James Corner Field Operations) (2019), Vol Walker Hall-Steven L. Anderson Design Center at the University of Arkansas (2018), the Crystal Bridges Museum Store at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (2015), the Little Rock Creative Corridor (2014), St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church (2013), and the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2012).

The Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church in Springdale, Arkansas, received the 2011 World Architecture Festival, Best Civic and Community Building.

Other awards and distinctions include several American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Athenaeum for Harvey Pediatric Clinic (2017), University of Arkansas School of Architecture Addition and Renovation (2014), Fayetteville Montessori Elementary (2014), Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (2012), and Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church (2011).

In addition, the Harvey Pediatric Clinic in Rogers, Arkansas, received the 2017 Healthcare Design Award from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Academy of Architecture for Health.

The University of Arkansas School of Architecture Addition and Renovation in Fayetteville, Arkansas, also received a 2016 American Architecture Prize (Educational Buildings, Platinum), a 2016 National AIA — CAE Education Facility Design Award of Excellence, and the 2012 American Institute of Architects (AIA) Technology in Architectural Practice, Building Information Modeling Award for Exemplary Use of BIM in a Small Firm.

The Reels Building at Thaden School in Bentonville, Arkansas, received a 2022 National AIA — CAE Education Facility Design Award for Merit.

The Keenan TowerHouse, in Fayetteville, Arkansas, was featured on the cover of the February 2001 issue of Architectural Record.

[12] The St. Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church, in Springdale, Arkansas, was featured on the cover of the November 2011 issue of Architectural Record.