An architect and researcher of emergent materials and sustainable building technologies, Blaine Brownell, FAIA, is a 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. He writes the Mind & Matter column for Architect magazine, and his work has been published in over 70 architecture, design, science, and news journals, including The New York Times, The London Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Nature. His most recent book, The Pandemic Effect, addresses the inoculation of the built environment.