Jon Boelkins

Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture
School of Architecture and Design

Office: 123 Fletcher
Phone: (337) 482–****
Email: jonathan.boelkins@louisiana.edu

Jonathan Boelkins is an architect, teacher, and writer.

As a practicing architect with over 20 years of experience, he has consistently produced award-winning architecture, both independently and as a member of several firms.  Formerly the Studio Director of the acclaimed design firm Marlon Blackwell Architects, he contributed to the design and completion of several significant projects including the Ruth Lilly Visitors Pavilion at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Saint Nicholas Eastern Orthodox Church, and the Porchdog House, each of which has received prestigious Honor Awards from the American Institute of Architects.  Saint Nicholas also received international recognition as the Best Civic and Community Building at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona in 2012.
Boelkins is a Co-Editor of a new monograph titled Radical Practice: The Work of Marlon Blackwell Architects (Princeton Architectural Press, 2022) and authored an introductory essay for From Penitentiary to Park about the collaboration of Marlon Blackwell Architects and James Corner Field Operations in Shelby Farms Park in Memphis (Susan Schadt Press, 2017.) His writing partnership with Marlon Blackwell has been featured in several books, including essays in Brian Healy Architects’ monograph Commonplaces: Working on an American Architecture and Jones Studio’s monograph Strive.

He received Bachelor’s degrees in Architecture from the University of Arkansas in 2004 and in Business Administration from Geneva College in 1996.  He received his Master’s Degree in Advanced Architectural Design as a Danforth Scholar at Washington University in St. Louis in 2015.   He is a licensed architect (Arkansas #4785) and a member of the American Institute of Architects.