Posting Description

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Architecture, to join Professor Mark Goulthorpe's ARPA-e funded research project, CarbonHouse.  CarbonHouse looks to designing, theorizing, analyzing, and prototyping composite buildings to test the viability of emerging forms of carbon, especially those derived from gas pyrolysis of natural gas and other precursors.  But graphene, carbon nano fibers, and carbon foams will also be considered (from other hydrocarbon sources), requiring the design, engineering, and manufacture of a series of test elements, resulting in design/build of an all-carbon exhibition house and design of larger multifamily housing.  The project seeks to bring relevant expertise in one or more of the following: architectural design, CNC fabrication, novel material assembly, fiber reinforced polymeric composite engineering, etc.

A full description is available at  https://architecture.mit.edu/department/open-positions