Michael Morris

Michael Morris is a graduate of The Cooper Union School of Architecture and Parsons School of Design Environmental Design and Fulbright recipient. With his late partner-and- wife Yoshiko Sato, Morris founded the New York City-based Morris Sato Studio Architecture in 1996 and the Space Exploration Architecture (SEARC) in 2006. Morris Sato Studio’s multi-disciplinary architecture, art and science collaborations have garnered the firm international commissions and recognition. Concurrent to his practice, Morris has continuously held positions in leading university’s including his alma mater’s Cooper Union and Parsons, co-founding the SEARC Lab and Space Studio’s I-XV at Columbia University and Pratt Institute. Awarded the NASA X-Hab Innovation Grants in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, Morris with SEArch+ partners Rebeccah Pailes–Friedman and Melodie Yashar worked with Pratt architecture and industrial design students to define and prototype Mars transit and surface habitats In 2015-2018, the team’s Mars transit habitat project- MOTH was exhibited at the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum and featured in Scientific America. SEArch+ / Space Exploration Architecture