Pop!Tech 2006: Dangerous Ideas

Blaine Brownell is an architect, sustainable building advisor, and researcher of materials with NBBJ in Seattle. Educated at Princeton and Rice Universities, he is an advocate of harnessing the latest materials expertise to transform the way we make buildings and products. Blaine is the author of Transmaterial: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment, and he writes weblogs for the Transstudio and Core77 websites.

Blaine has practiced architecture in Tokyo, Nagoya, Houston, and Seattle. His work has been published in A+U, Architectural Record, Architecture, BusinessWeek, New Scientist, Popular Science, Sustainable Industries Journal, and Seattle’s and Portland’s Daily Journal of Commerce. His work has also been exhibited at the Seattle Architectural Foundation, Center on Contemporary Art, and Consolidated Works in Seattle, as well as at DiverseWorks in Houston and the Centre Universitaire Méditerranéen in Nice. Blaine was selected for a 2006 “40 Under 40” Award by Building Design & Construction magazine, and is the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to Japan for 2006-2007. He is currently living in Tokyo and researching Japanese sustainable design innovations for a future book.

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