Adare Brown

Adare Brown is an artist, designer, and organizer interested in social housing, alternative development, and crafty landscapes. In her professional work, Adare performs construction administration and project management for non-profit organizations with roots in NYC’s community housing movement. Prior, Adare 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. She has also held graduate teaching fellowships at Yale. Adare completed her Masters in Architecture at Yale University, where she received the Lord Norman R. Foster Scholarship. At Washington University, she received the Cushing Memorial and the Hazel H. Huntsinger Memorial Prize in Painting and was named the Jeffrey Frank Wacks Scholar in 2017. She also obtained Bachelor‚Äôs degrees in Fine Arts and Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.

 Adare has been organizing with The Architecture Lobby Green New Deal Working Group since 2020. She is 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, she is looking for peers in Bangkok‚Äôs affordable housing industry and researching the Baan Mankong program.