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Blaine Brownell

School of Architecture
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Japanese architecture
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David Costanza
Jonathan Dessi-Olive
Chris Jarrett
Eric Sauda
Betsy West
Mona Azarbayjani
Jeff Michael
Colleen Hammelman
Rachel Dickey
David Thaddeus
Lee Gray
Brook Muller
Matthew Gin
Ming-Chun Lee
Marek Ranis
Kyoung-Hee Kim
Jeff Balmer
Emily Makas
David Vinson
Jefferson Ellinger
Brian Magi
Jae Emerling
Thomas Schmidt
Nadia Anderson
Kelly Carlson-Reddig
Jose Gamez
Saffeer Khan
Peter Wong
Ken Lambla
Deborah Ryan
Marc Manack
Thomas Forget
Liz McCormick
Lidia Klein
Chengde Wu
Greg Snyder
Dimitrios Papanikolaou
Catty Dan Zhang
Blaine Brownell is an architect, educator, and researcher of emergent materials and applications. A former Fulbright scholar to Japan, he 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, Hypernatural (co-authored with Marc Swackhamer), and the Transmaterial series. He has written the “Mind & Matter” column for Architect magazine since 2009, and his work has been published in more than 70 architecture, design, science, and news journals, including The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Nature. Brownell holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and a Certificate in East Asian Studies from Princeton University and a Master of Architecture from Rice University. He was elevated to the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows in February 2020.

Brownell came to UNC Charlotte from the University of Minnesota School of Architecture, where he was a professor and interim head and served as director of graduate studies and interim director of the Master of Science in Architecture–Sustainable Design Program.

See more on his faculty profile at coaa.uncc.edu >> 

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