How Jeffrey Montes Pivoted From Terrestrial Architecture to Becoming Senior Space Architect at Blue Origin

2021-01-13T09:00:00-05:00

Working out of the Box is a series of features presenting architects who have applied their architecture backgrounds to alternative career paths.

In this installment, we're talking with a design professional who hasn't left the profession by definition but pivoted from conventional, terrestrial architecture to a whole new environment: Jeffrey Montes is a Space architect and technologist with a keen interest in designing ever-better extraterrestrial habitats that, one day, will shelter human missions.

Jeffrey currently works at Blue Origin as Senior Space Architect. He is also a research fellow at Open Lunar Foundation and has previously been a driving force behind the widely published and NASA Centennial Challenge-winning proposal for a Martian habitat, Marsha.

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How Jeffrey Montes Pivoted From Terrestrial Architecture to Becoming Senior Space Architect at Blue Origin