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Blaine Brownell will give a lecture about emergent material technologies at The College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University in Shanghai at 6:30 pm on Monday, May 24, 2010. The talk will be followed by a discussion with architecture students about potential material applications in China.

This month’s A+U journal adopts the theme of “Materials / Treatments” in the study of international contemporary architecture and design. Sauerbruch Hutton, Foreign Office Architects, Asymptote, Eduardo Souto de Moura, David Chipperfield, and Chuck Hoberman are included in the list of creative practices currently conducting robust experiments in material applications. The essay “Testing Ground: Emergent [...]

One decade ago, Japan-based architecture magazine SD published a special issue on new materials entitled “Alluring Materiality.” For its ten-year anniversary, the original editorial team reconvened to produce another issue reflecting upon recent material progress, and invited Blaine Brownell to be a co-editor. The anniversary issue was recently published by Kajima Institute Publishing Co. The [...]

Blaine Brownell lectured at the Architectural Institute of Japan in Tokyo on June 19, 2009. His lecture was entitled ”Sustainable Material Futures in Architecture,” and covered emerging trends in material development based on environmental, economic, and cultural responses, as well as future possibilities.

“Japan is a test, a challenge to think the unthinkable, a place where meaning is finally banished. Paradise, indeed, for the great student of signs.” – Edmund White Sixteen graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Minnesota School of Architecture set out on May 24, 2009 for Tokyo. The Japan traveling studio—led by Blaine [...]