Nathan Brown

Assistant Professor

Nathan is a researcher with a broad academic and professional background involving structural engineering, architecture, and building science. Prior to joining the Department of Architectural Engineering at Penn State, he completed a PhD in Building Technology at MIT in 2019. Nathan was a part of the Digital Structures Research Group in the MIT Department of Architecture from 2014-2019, also earning an SMBT degree from MIT in 2016. His research seeks to understand how structural considerations interact with other performance and architectural criteria in conceptual building design, and how computation can play a role in the creative process. Nathan earned a BSE in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University with certificates in Architecture & Engineering and Urban Studies. He has worked for BuroHappold in Boston as a computational designer, and on building energy retrofit projects for Elevate Energy in Chicago. He was the recipient of the 2016 Structural Engineering Travel Fellowship from the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill Foundation.

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