Adare Brown
Adare Brown is an artist, designer, and organizer interested in social housing, alternative development, and crafty landscapes. In their professional work, they perform construction administration and project management for non-profit organizations with roots in NYC’s community housing movement. Prior, they worked for Outside Development, an architectural research practice advocating for an urban form-of-life capable of overcoming our dependence on fossil fuels.
Adare has been an invited critic at Yale, Cornell, Columbia GSAPP and the Cooper Union. They have also held graduate teaching fellowships at Yale. They completed their Masters in Architecture at Yale University, where they received the Lord Norman R. Foster Scholarship. At Washington University, they received the Cushing Memorial and the Hazel H. Huntsinger Memorial Prize in Painting and were named the Jeffrey Frank Wacks Scholar in 2017. They also obtained Bachelor’s degrees in Fine Arts and Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
They have been organizing with The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group since 2020. They are a founding member of the Alternative Building Industry Collective, organizing practitioners across the building sector towards climate action.
Adare is currently the James Harrison Steedman Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis researching social housing. While at MATDOT, they are looking for peers in Bangkok’s affordable housing industry and researching the Baan Mankong program.