Pippa McLeod-Brown

Pippa McLeod-Brown is an experimental bio-designer and practicing architect. She has a passion for pursuing the integration of biological materials and systems in architecture for a more sustainable built environment. Pippa has extensive experience researching the properties of bacteria spore-based hygromorphs, and she now focuses on applying her expertise from both architecture and research, to explore ecological design methodology using the molecular power of microorganisms as a generator for biological design protocols.

She is a co-founder of the bio-design collaborative Culina. Culina's immersive video experience of their microbially influenced restaurant and research facility was awarded the prize for Outstanding Presentation in the Biodesign Challenge 2020. Her research at HBBE revolves around developing the Culina concept as a generator of energy and food circularity at the domestic scale, tested at the HBBE's experimental home for more sustainable architectural futures.

Pippa holds a diploma, master’s degree and bachelor's degree in Architecture from Newcastle University. She works as an architect in a London-based practice alongside working as a Research Assistant in Prototyping Biological Architecture at the HBBE to facilitate key information exchanges between sectors to assist in research and practice development.

e: philippa.mcleod-brown@newcastle.ac.uk