Blaine Brownell is an architect, educator, and researcher of emergent materials and applications. A former Fulbright scholar to Japan, Brownell has authored eight books on advanced and sustainable materials for architecture and design. He has written the Mind & Matter column for Architect magazine since 2009, and his work has been published in over 70 architecture, design, science, and news journals includingTheNew York Times,The London Times,The Wall Street Journal, andNature. His forthcoming book The Pandemic Effect addresses the inoculation of the built environment.