Blaine Brownell--an architect, educator, researcher, and former Fulbright scholar to Japan--has authored eight books on advanced and sustainable materials for architecture and design. He has written the Mind & Matter column for Architect magazine since 2009, and his work has been published in mo...

Blaine Brownell--an architect, educator, researcher, and former Fulbright scholar to Japan--has authored eight books on advanced and sustainable materials for architecture and design. 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.* He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he is Director of the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at UNC Charlotte.