Blaine Brownell, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, School of Architecture

An architect and researcher focused on emergent materials and sustainable building technologies, Blaine Brownell, FAIA, is Professor and Director of the David R. Ravin School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A former Fulbright scholar to Japan, he has authored nine books on advanced and sustainable materials for architecture and design, including Matter in the Floating World, Material Strategies, and the four-volume Transmaterial series. His work has appeared in more than 70 architecture, design, science, and news publications, including The New York Times, The Times of London, The Wall Street Journal, and Nature. His most recent book, The Pandemic Effect, examines how the built environment can be inoculated against future risk.