David Nixon
Biography
David Nixon is an English architect who co-founded the studio Future Systems with Jan Kaplický in 1978. He was the director of the architectural office Altus Associates in Los Angeles and the founder of the Irish company Astrocourier, which focuses on space technologies. He was among the first handful of architects who worked on the American space program since the mid-1980s. He is the only British architect specializing in the field of space, with four decades of projects ranging from terrestrial infrastructure to experiments with space travel.
He was born in Yorkshire, England, and received his education at Milton Abbey School in Dorset. From 1971 to 1980, he worked at several prominent architectural firms, including the office of Sir Hugh Casson and the early offices of Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in London. In 1978, he founded the avant-garde studio Future Systems with architect Jan Kaplický, with whom he collaborated on numerous exploratory and competition projects for ten years.
In 1980, he moved to California, where he taught architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and at the University of California, Los Angeles. At SCI-Arc, he led postgraduate research funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which focused on prototypes of habitats for astronauts on space stations. This led to his growing involvement in astronautics through his own office, which he established in 1992. Over the years, he worked on various space projects for clients ranging from government agencies to private companies and startups in the USA and Europe. In 2000, he founded a new space venture, Astrocourier, which develops miniature products and services for space flights.
David Nixon is an English architect who co-founded the studio Future Systems with Jan Kaplický in 1978. He was the director of the architectural office Altus Associates in Los Angeles and the founder of the Irish company Astrocourier, which focuses on space technologies. He was among the first handful of architects who worked on the American space program since the mid-1980s. He is the only British architect specializing in the field of space, with four decades of projects ranging from terrestrial infrastructure to experiments with space travel.
He was born in Yorkshire, England, and received his education at Milton Abbey School in Dorset. From 1971 to 1980, he worked at several prominent architectural firms, including the office of Sir Hugh Casson and the early offices of Lord Norman Foster, Lord Richard Rogers, and Sir Nicholas Grimshaw in London. In 1978, he founded the avant-garde studio Future Systems with architect Jan Kaplický, with whom he collaborated on numerous exploratory and competition projects for ten years.
In 1980, he moved to California, where he taught architecture at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and at the University of California, Los Angeles. At SCI-Arc, he led postgraduate research funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which focused on prototypes of habitats for astronauts on space stations. This led to his growing involvement in astronautics through his own office, which he established in 1992. Over the years, he worked on various space projects for clients ranging from government agencies to private companies and startups in the USA and Europe. In 2000, he founded a new space venture, Astrocourier, which develops miniature products and services for space flights.
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