Gabrielle Brainard

Gabrielle Brainard is an Associate Principal at SOM in New York. As an enclosure specialist and a certified passive house designer, she applies fundamental building science principles to the design of comfortable, durable, and energy-efficient building envelopes. Her research on envelope retrofits has been supported by the AIA Upjohn Research Initiative and by NYSERDA, and she is currently working on a book of Passive House retrofit case studies, forthcoming from Routledge in 2026. Gabrielle is a visiting professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, and a trainer for The Passive House Network.