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Georgi Petrov is a specialist in high-performance architecture, particularly in the area of architecture for human space exploration on the surfaces of other planets. He holds graduate degrees in civil engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For his architectural thesis he designed a permanently inhabited settlement on Mars, considering the design from a combined architectural, planning, and engineering points of view. Subsequently he tested some of the ideas at the Mars Society's Desert Research Station. Mr. Petrov is also an engineer and designer at Synthesis International. Professionally, Mr. Petrov has experience as an engineer at the structures group at the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he worked on high-rises and specialty glass and steel structures. Currently he is an architect at Laguarda Low Architects, specializing in mixed-use projects in European countries. Georgi was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. | 