A blog, a course outline: The University of Minnesota School of Architecture’s site: Material Strategy: Innovative Applications in Architecture. See Blogroll for a link.

· by · in architecture, materials, technology. ·

Scholarly passages are shed for less formal speak in this course outline cum blog (with a familiar layout) for architectural students and followers of material development. Opinion & observation with visuals, provide useful introductions to key, base, construction materials & current developments utilizing these materials.  ‘Material Strategy’ is authored by Associate Professor, Blaine Brownell.

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Weathering Facades /

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Paintings & Coatings:  Crypsis /

Temperature Sensitive Materials /

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Indigenous Architecture /

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Architecture as Scaffolding  /

+other topics, eg: The Afterlives of Buildings / Urban Camouflage Rethought / Dynamic Technology & the Human Experience / The Fascination with Corrugation.

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