e-mail:	gpetrov (at) alum.mit.edu
www:	www.gpetrov.com

SHORT BIOGRAPHY
Georgi Petrov is a specialist in high-performance architecture, particularly in the area of habitats for human space exploration on the surfaces of other planets.
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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 M.Arch thesis he designed a permanently inhabited settlement on Mars. Subsequently he tested some of the ideas at the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah and further developed the project as the lead architect on the MarsHome project of the Mars Foundation.
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Mr. Petrov is a registered architect in New York State.
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He is also a vice president, designer, and lead engineer at Synthesis International.
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Mr. Petrov has experience as a project architect at Laguarda.Low Architects, specializing in mixed-use and retail projects in Eastern Europe and Russia. Currently he is an engineer at the structures group at the New York office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, where he works on highrises and specialty glass and steel structures.
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Georgi was born in Sofia, Bulgaria.

PROFESSIONAL LICENSES
Architect - New York State

AFFILIATIONS
Synthesis International
Vice President - Engineer/Designer

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics [AIAA] Design Engineering Technical Committee - Aerospace Architecture Subcommittee
Member

International association for Bridge and Structural Engineering [IABSE]
Member

Mars Foundation
Programming Team – Architecture and Structural Engineering Lead

EDUCATION
Master of Architecture (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, January 2004)

Master of Science in Civil Engineering (University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, December 2000)

Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies (University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, May 1999)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. New York, USA (07/08-Present)
Structural Engineering Intern
Projects: North Mosque - Bahrain Bay Bahrain, Busan Lotte World - Busan South Korea.
Structural design in steel, concrete, and glass using American, British, and Chinese codes. Presentation drawings, DD, Bid documents, and CDs.
Laguarda.Low Architects. Dallas, USA (10/04-07/07)
Project Architect
Projects: Grand Galleria - Burgas, Bulgaria, Galleria Varna - Varna Bulgaria, Avenue Mall – Zagreb Croatia, Planeta Center - Krasnoyarsk Russia, Obolon Center – Kiev Ukraine.
Master planning, Architectural design, Project Management.

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP. Chicago, USA (03/01-06/01, 04/04-10/04)
Structural Engineering Intern
Projects: Jubilee Park Pavilion - London, Millennium Park – Chicago, Chemsunny Plaza – Beijing, Freedom Tower – New York, Rachofsky Residence – Dallas, Moscow Tower – Moscow, Audobon Insectarium – New Orleans.
Structural design in steel, concrete, and glass using American, British, and Chinese codes. Presentation drawings, DD, Bid documents, and CDs.

Fitch-Fitzgerald, Inc. Architects, Engineers Champaign, USA (05/99-01/01)
Architectural Intern
Projects: Midrise Residential, Single Family, Educational
Critically involved in development of a new design process for the firm. Preliminary Design, Presentation Drawings, Structural Design, Construction Documents, Site Visits, Web Page Management, Meetings with clients, product representatives and contractors.

TEACHING and LECTURING EXPERIENCE
Department of Architecture
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (09/01-12/03)
Teaching Assistant:
4.401 Introduction to Building Technology – Fall 2001
4.440 Basic Structural Theory – Spring 2003
4.463 Structures II – Fall 2003

Dept. of Civil Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Grader:
CEE 361 Methods of Structural Analysis – Fall 2000

NetMath - Distance Education Program (10/95 - 05/99)
Dept. of Mathematics, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Mentor for Calculus I, II and III.

Invited Lectures
SOM Professional Development Committee Lecture Series 15.Aug.2005

Conference Lectures
2005 36th International Conference on Environmental Systems, July 11-14
‘Variants on the TransHab Paradigm (2): The Surface Endoskeletal Inflatable Module (SEIM)’
‘A Permanent Settlement on Mars: The Architecture of the Mars Homestead Project’

2004 Mars Society 7th International Conference, August 19 -22
‘In-situ Martian Construction: MDRS Crew22 Masonry Construction Simulation’

2004 35th International Conference on Environmental Systems, July 19-22

PUBLICATIONS
Petrov, Georgi, James Harris. “In-Situ Martian Construction – MDRS Crew 22 Masonry Construction Simulation” On to Mars 2: Exploring and Settling a New World. Edited by Frank Crossman and Robert Zubrin. Apogee Books 2005. pgs. 126-131.

Petrov, Georgi, John Ochsendorf. “Building on Mars.” Civil Engineering Magazine, October 2005, pgs. 46-53.

Adams, Constance M., Georgi Petrov. “Variants on the TransHab Paradigm (2): The Surface Endoskeletal Inflatable Module (SEIM)” (SAE 2005-01-2847). 35th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Rome, Italy, 11-14 July 2005.

Petrov, Georgi, Bruce Mackenzie, Mark Homnick, Joseph E Palaia. “A Permanent Settlement on Mars: The Architecture of the Mars Homestead Project” (SAE 2005-01-2853). 35th International Conference on Environmental Systems (ICES), Rome, Italy, 11-14 July 2005.

PUBLICATIONS of design work
Aerospace America, December 2005 “Year In Review – Design engineering”, pg 69.

Metropolis, October 2005 “Design Prescription: The Hospital Bed”, pgs 130-131.

Modern Marvels, The Arch. First aired on 12 January 2005. A&E Television Networks. Distributed by New Video.

SOM Journal 1, 2001 “Case Studies: Glass and Steel Structural Systems”, pgs 121-127.