Blaine Brownell, FAIA, is an architect and materials researcher. The author of the four Transmaterial books (2006, 2008, 2010, 2017), he is the director of the school of architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Blaine Brownell explores products that use reclaimed plastics from oceans and landfills as feedstock for innovative building components in a post for Architect.
Additive manufacturing technology is disrupting residential construction, but researchers are still perfecting methods and materials for its application.