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Blaine Brownell will lecture about biomimetic materials and design applications at the 1st Wyss Adaptive Architecture Workshop entitled “Buildings Inspired by Nature: Inventing the Future Built Environment,” sponsored by the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University. This event is envisaged as a first step towards catalyzing the application of revolutionary advances in [...]

Blaine Brownell will give the keynote lecture at the Resiliency of the National Building Inventory Workshop at the University of Southern California on September 13, 2011. The purpose of the workshop is to characterize the condition of the existing building inventory within the United States and to prepare a roadmap that serves the public and [...]

Blaine Brownell participated as a mentor at the Hatch Biannual International Conference in Asheville, North Carolina on April 15–16, 2011. He gave a keynote lecture on April 15 and participated in a panel called “Additive Manufacturing in Architecture and Design” on April 16 with Douglas Hecker, Professor at Clemson University School of Architecture; Rajeev Kulkarni, [...]

Blaine Brownell presented a lecture entitled “Matter in the Floating World: Substance and Transience in Japanese Architecture and Design” at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts on April 7, 2011. The talk expanded upon the themes presented in his book Matter in the Floating World: Conversations with Leading Japanese Architects and Designers, published by Princeton Architectural [...]

Blaine Brownell is one of three speakers who will discuss material changes in a future shaped by declining petroleum at the National Building Museum in DC on Thursday, February 17 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. The discussion is one of the “For the Greener Good: Conversations That Will Change the World” series, entitled “Life After [...]

Blaine Brownell will introduce the Ultra High Performance Concrete Workshop at Columbia University on January 11 with a talk entitled “Concrete Transformations: From Mongrel Material to Smart Surface.” Jointly sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Columbia’s Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the [...]

Blaine Brownell will give a lecture during the first Advanced Materials Symposium, held at Ecobuild America 2010 in Washington, DC on Friday, December 10. Entitled “Material Resilience,” his talk will focus on emergent materials with implications for security, energy, and the environment. Other talks will consider high-ductility concrete; carbon fiber-reinforced polymer strengthening to mitigate progressive [...]

Blaine Brownell will give a lecture and workshop at Ecotech 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil in December. With the theme “Challenges and Trends for a Sustainable Architecture: Materials and Energy,” Ecotech will host some of the most internationally renowned experts in the areas of materials and energy, with proposals and solutions at the forefront in the [...]

Blaine Brownell will lecture at CIDAG 2010, the first international conference in design and graphic arts, organized by ISEC – Higher Institute for Education and Science and IPT – Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal. CIDAG will be held in Lisbon next week, and Brownell’s lecture will occur on Friday, October 29 at 2:00 pm. His talk is [...]

Blaine Brownell will give the opening talk of the Rice Design Alliance 2010 Fall Lecture Series on Wednesday, October 6. Entitled “A Material World,” the series will explore the breadth of influences exerted by emerging materials on contemporary design practice. The lecture will be held at 7:00 pm in Brown Auditorium, The Museum of Fine [...]