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Material Memory

January 12, 2013by roberthholley Leave a comment

Senses can trigger our memory, but can memory trigger our senses? My grandfather used to tell us stories of the war and his march from Omaha Beach to Berlin.  With […]

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Concrete, Metal, Mineral, Uncategorized, Wood

The Great Metal Tube in the Sky

January 8, 2013by roberthholley 1 Comment

Composite Bird My window seat next to the wing of the Boeing 777 that would carry me across the Arctic Sea to China was anything but desired.  As soon as […]

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Metal, Plastic, Uncategorized

Wt Hpnd 2 Vwls?

Featuredby roberthholley Leave a comment

Architecture, Materials and The Battle of Speed and Quality Yeah, so where have all the vowels gone?  What happened to them?  We find ourselves in a world where words are […]

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Uncategorized

Journey to the Center of a Bathhouse

November 30, 2012by roberthholley Leave a comment

Every once in a while, I like to indulge in looking back to a rather perplexing creation of Peter Zumthor, the bathhouse at Therme Vals.  And what a peculiar bathhouse […]

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Light, Mineral

And Then There Was Teflon

November 16, 2012by roberthholley 1 Comment

A Brief History of Technology, Part 2  –  Through the Teflon Looking Glass Lets step away from heavy-handed theory and digital technology for a minute and look at Teflon.  As […]

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Biomaterials, Light, Plastic

A Brief History of Technology, Part 1

November 9, 2012by roberthholley 1 Comment

Information and Material Let’s take a few steps back for a minute and look at the history of technology.  But first, when you think of what technology is, what comes […]

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Uncategorized

Strange Materials: Collaborating with Technology

November 2, 2012by roberthholley Leave a comment

So recently, I’ve been asking the question, how can architecture engage and interact with us?  With our ever-increasing dependence on computers and technology, can our physical surroundings actually seduce us into “looking […]

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Biomaterials, Uncategorized

New Aesthetic: The Digital / Physical Threshold

October 26, 2012by roberthholley 1 Comment

What would it look like if our digital world began to cross over into our physical world? What form would it take and what would it do? How would we […]

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Uncategorized

Follow Me: Social Media and Architecture

October 19, 2012by roberthholley 5 Comments

What good is architecture if we don’t look up and recognize it?  Why bother creating space if we choose not to engage with it?  And what good are materials if […]

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Uncategorized

MATERIAL INTERROGATION: Reconsidering Nostalgia

October 12, 2012by roberthholley 1 Comment

Does anybody really have an issue with nostalgia?  I sure hope not.  Every so often we look to those that came before us for both wisdom and inspiration.  The successes […]

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Concrete, Metal, Mineral, Wood

Insulation: The Man Behind the Scenes

October 5, 2012by roberthholley Leave a comment

Monday evening isn’t typically considered the best night for live music, but this is Minneapolis, and I’ll be damned if something as arbitrary as a day of the week can […]

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Biomaterials, Plastic, Wood

Sound Material

September 28, 2012by roberthholley 1 Comment

Who says material has to be tangible?  Well, ok, I’ve never actually heard anyone say that, but it seems to be a pretty common assumption, right? Well you’re WRONG (listen […]

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Concrete, Wood

Material Dynamics: Skin and Asphalt

September 21, 2012by roberthholley Leave a comment

One time, when I was about five years old, the hand-held telescope that I had tied around my neck with a hockey skate lace got caught up in the spokes […]

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Living, Mineral

Mass Innovation

September 21, 2012by roberthholley 1 Comment

Considered “the Pierce-Arrow of the American building industry,” the outdated practices of arch construction evolved to produce an organically compelling defeat of gravity in an age where manufacturing and automation were […]

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Fabric, Mineral
Photography: Farshid Assassi

MATERIAL FOCUS: Des Moines Public Library

September 13, 2012by roberthholley Leave a comment

Des Moines Public Library, Des Moines, Iowa David Chipperfield Architects, United Kingdom Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck Architecture, Des Moines There’s a difference between invention and innovation.  Prometheus stole fire from the […]

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Glass, Metal

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Course

ARCH 5541
Material Strategies
University of Minnesota School of Architecture
Fall 2012

Location and Time

35 Rapson Hall
Mondays 9:45 am—12:30 pm

Instructor

Blaine Brownell
Assistant Professor
Rapson Hall 151P
612.626.1040
brownell@umn.edu
Office Hours:
Tuesdays and Thursdays
11:00 am­—12:00 pm
or by appointment

Source Text

Blaine Brownell, Material Strategies: Innovative Applications in Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012)

Syllabus

Download the complete course syllabus for print here.

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