Blaine Erickson Brownell

Blaine Brownell is an architect and former Fulbright scholar to Japan with a focus on emergent materials and applications. He is a professor and interim head of the University of Minnesota School of Architecture. Brownell has authored seven books on advanced materials for architecture and design including the four-volume Transmaterial series, Matter in the Floating World, Material Strategies, and Hypernatural (co-authored with Marc Swackhamer). 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.

Publications

Determining Architecture's Footprint: Preliminary Methods for Measuring the True Environmental Impact of Buildings
Determining Architecture's Footprint: Preliminary Methods for Measuring the True Environmental Impact of Buildings
Blaine Erickson Brownell. © 2021. 25 pages.
Current approaches to designing sustainable buildings are inadequate for meeting environmental goals. Buildings continue to consume nearly half of all resources, and architects...
Examining the Environmental Impacts of Materials and Buildings
Examining the Environmental Impacts of Materials and Buildings
Blaine Erickson Brownell. © 2020. 358 pages.
Fundamental environmental challenges such as climate change, resource depletion, and pollution are still widely relevant in today’s world. Many of these problems have been...
Determining Architecture's Footprint: Preliminary Methods for Measuring the True Environmental Impact of Buildings
Determining Architecture's Footprint: Preliminary Methods for Measuring the True Environmental Impact of Buildings
Blaine Erickson Brownell. © 2019. 32 pages.
Current approaches to designing sustainable buildings are inadequate for meeting environmental goals. Buildings continue to consume nearly half of all resources, and architects...