Blaine Brownell

Blaine Brownell is an architect, educator, and researcher of emergent materials and applications. A former Fulbright scholar to Japan, Brownell has authored eight books on advanced and sustainable materials for architecture and design, including the Princeton Architectural Press titles Matter in the Floating World, Material Strategies, and the Transmaterial series. He has written the Mind & Matter column for Architect magazine since 2009, and his work has been published in over 70 architecture, design, science, and news journals including The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Nature. Brownell is the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and was previously the Interim Head of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. Brownell was elevated to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows in 2020.