• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Mark Goulthorpe

MIT

Associate Professor Department of Architecture

Mark Goulthorpe, Associate Professor at MIT Dept Architecture, researches digital design>fabrication. Current research centers on automated composite housing production, addressing the global challenges of affordability and sustainability of buildings. CarbonHouse deploys new forms of carbon such as carbon nanotubes and carbon foams, focusing on supplementing the cost of hydrogen by gas pyrolysis of methane. Goulthorpe organized MakeBuildings as part of the MIT SOLVE initiative, looking to find ways to decisively address macro global issues – the challenge doubling the number of buildings on the planet by 2050. He organized the Carbon>Building 2018 conference at MIT to gather upstream and downstream groups interested in using hydrocarbons for building; another C>B will take place at MIT fall 2020. This has resulted in funding from Shell and ExxonMobil, and his being asked to lead JEC, in its recent Composite Buildings initiative. Most recently he was awarded ARPA-e funding for development of CarbonHouse, looking to support a hydrogen economy by demonstrating viable use of carbon nanotube and carbon foam materials. Goulthorpe believes there is a better, quicker, cheaper, greener building paradigm available to humanity, and seeks to bring this forwards

Sessions With Mark Goulthorpe

Thursday, 14 March