INTtalk: Interior Worlds in Outer Space with Michael Morris
September 30, 2025 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Online
On Earth, Michael Morris’s work often evolves into longer narratives, while designing for outer space it feels closer to poetry—concentrated, intuitive, immediate. Both are demanding yet distinct. His role is transforming intuition into form and rationalizing it through extensive drawings aligned with material, science, and technology, in shaping how these works can be realized to support life in the future.
Michael Morris, born in London, is a dual-national of Ireland and the United States. In 1996, he co-founded the NYC-based architecture firm Morris Sato Studio LLP with his late wife and partner, architect Yoshiko Sato. In 2006, he co-founded SEArch (Space Exploration Architecture) at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, with Sato, and Christina Ciardullo, AIA.
In 2015, Morris and Ciardullo established SEArch+ (Space Exploration Architecture LLC), which has since won 10 NASA awards and commissions. He is also a member of NASA’s Moon2Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technology Team (MMPACT) at the Marshall Space Flight Centre.
A Fulbright Scholar, Morris earned his Bachelor of Architecture with honours from the Cooper Union in NYC. He is the recipient of the Paris Prize in Architecture, the Young Architects Prize, the John Hejduk Q. Award in Architecture, along with multiple AIA Design Awards. His work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the Venice Biennale, the Mori Art Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. His projects with SEArch+ are part of the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Paris’ Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, and in Washington DC’s Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.
Morris’ work has appeared on the web and in print including featured work in Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Monacelli Press’ LOFT , and Phaidon Press’ 10x10_2. Among his many contributions to peer-reviewed papers Morris’ published essays include: 5 Houses for Mars, Electra Press, Lisbon, In Evidence of Aura, Vorkurs – UF, Gainesville, LightShowers, Plastic in Architecture and Engineering, Princeton, Recent Work of Morris Sato Studio, New Exhibitions Design, AvEditions , Germany, and Drawing on Earth, Scapes, Parsons, New York.
Morris has taught at Cooper Union, Columbia, and Cornell Universities, and lectured at Harvard, MIT, RPI, IIT, and across North America, Europe, East Asia, and Australia. He is currently a senior faculty member at Parsons School of Design and served as the 4-time NASA X-HAB Lead- Fellow and is a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute’s School of Architecture.
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