Professor Emeritus Ted Brown served as the graduate and undergraduate chair at the School of Architecture and as director of the Florence programs. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (1988) and a Fellow of the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry, University of Chicago (2018).
Brown’s collaborative design practices work within the public and private sectors addressing architecture and the city at the infrastructural, neighborhood and apparatus scales. He is a founding partner of Munly/Brown Studio, with projects that include mix-use housing, the master plan for the Salt District Neighborhood, a Childcare Campus at SU, and a university Catholic Chapel. In collaboration with the landscape practice Julia Czerniak/CLEAR, Brown has worked on local waterfront redevelopment projects for the city of Syracuse. Together they have taught courses that address design, landscape, and global change, most recently in the Galapagos Islands (2023). His work in the visual arts has ranged from “Landscape Miniatures” to mix media stain paintings. His research includes visualization of archeological sites and addressing sea level rise for coastal communities. Brown’s recent collaboration with Bill Brown examines ways to link the art of assembly as a material practice with assemblage theory. The forum for this work is Studio R-A resulting in articles, exhibitions, and design provocations on/of re-assemblage. “Siting re-assemblage” re-imagines landscape as an assemblage practice in the context of assemblage thinking in the visual arts, social theory, and urban geography.
