Staff Profile

Pippa McLeod-Brown is an experimental bio-designer and practicing architectural assistant.  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 where her research aimed to explore ecological design methodology using the molecular power of microorganisms as a generator for biological design protocols. 

Pippa 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.  

Pippa holds a masters and bachelor's degree in Architecture from Newcastle University.  She is currently working in a London-based architecture practice while taking the Part 3 Diploma to qualify as an architect alongside working as a Research Assistant in Prototyping Biological Architecture at the Hub for Biotechnology in the Built Environment.