Jonathan Marvel, FAIA, is the founding principal at Marvel Architects, which has offices in New York City and Puerto Rico.

Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Marvel is an architect with more than 30 years of experience providing architectural, planning, community economic development and sustainable development services for public spaces, educational institutions, single and multi-family housing, libraries, museums and large-scale mixed-use developments.

Marvel also teaches, writes, lectures and leads discussion on urban design and architecture in both academic and civic contexts. He is the recipient of numerous awards, and he has a position on several boards of local and national organizations committed to equitable and sustainable planning and development efforts.

Marvel will present a lecture at 5 p.m. Monday, April 17, in Ken and Linda Sue Shollmier Hall, Room 250 of Vol Walker Hall, on the University of Arkansas campus in Fayetteville, as part of the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design lecture series.

Marvel’s lecture, titled “Getting to T2: process, plans and practice," will give breadth and insight to Marvel Architects’ approach to building a new facility for TheatreSquared, the Fayetteville-based professional theater company. In telling the story of TheatreSquared (nicknamed T2), he will recount other relevant projects that informed the T2 approach – shedding light on Marvel Architects’ holistic design and build practice.

As he describes an interdisciplinary web, the audience will gain unique perspective into how Marvel Architects functions as a studio and its core beliefs as a practice. Iterative modeling and design are used at the firm to strategically and contextually solve the greatest socio-economic and environmental issues facing humanity today.

This is the Mort Karp Memorial Lecture, sponsored by Polk Stanley Wilcox Architects.

This lecture is approved for continuing education credits through the American Institute of Architects and the American Society of Landscape Architects.