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The Fascination with Corrugation

December 14, 2012by Reenie McCormick Leave a comment

Cardboard is perhaps the most vernacular engineered material today. Almost everyone has had interaction with cardboard and most have experimented in their own construction using cardboard. Remember that toy you […]

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Adaptive Reuse: Istanbul Salt Repository

November 29, 2012by ktkngs Leave a comment

“Great architecture has a global language, which can minimize differences of taste resulting from local cultural factors.” -Erginoğlu & Çalışlar Architects  Project: Tuzamban, Used by Medina Turgul DDB (2009) Original Use: Salt […]

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Metal, Mineral

Dynamic Technology and the Human Experience

November 16, 2012by Reenie McCormick 2 Comments

Technology today has continued to drive design, namely in the way we create space. This may happen in the production of the materials to make the space. It may happen […]

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Living, Uncategorized

Frozen Blur

November 2, 2012by ktkngs Leave a comment

In Minnesota, one sculptor uses the water expelled from his home’s geo-thermal system to create large ice sculptures. Roger Hanson started this project in the winter of 2007. The geo-thermal […]

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50 Shades of Camouflage

November 2, 2012by elenk002 Leave a comment

Camouflage is a set of methods or concealment that allow otherwise visible animals, military vehicles, or other objects to remain unnoticed by blending in with their environments by resembling something […]

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Biomaterials, Living, Mineral, Paint & Coatings, Wood

Location Based Architecture

October 19, 2012by elenk002 Leave a comment

When designing structure we have the unique ability to either embrace the site or go against it. If we embrace the site, our designs have the ability to mesh into […]

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Concrete, Living, Wood

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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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