Joseph Choma

Joseph Choma is Director of the School of Architecture and Professor of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University. Previously, he taught at The Cooper Union, MIT, and Clemson University. He was also the 2019-20 NCCR Digital Fabrication Researcher in Residence at the ETH Zurich. He has received awards from the American Institute of Architects, American Composites Manufacturers Association, and the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture. In particular, he was recently named the recipient of the 2023 ACADIA Innovative Research Award of Excellence. His material explorations have been noted by CompositesWorld Magazine as “spearheading research into the use of foldable composites." He is the inventor of Foldable Composite Structures — U.S. Patent Number 10,994,468. Additionally, he is the author of three books, Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers (2015), Études for Architects (2018) and The Philosophy of Dumbness (2020). His books have received reviews in Architectural Record, Architecture NZ Magazine, Art Libraries Society of North America, RIBA Journal, and the Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, among others. Joseph completed graduate studies in design and computation at MIT and completed his PhD in Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge International Scholar.

Corporate Experience

• Founder and Director, Design Topology Lab, USA, 2009 - Present 

Academic Experience

• Director and Professor, Florida Atlantic University, USA, 2022 - Present 

• Associate Professor, Clemson University, USA, 2014 - 2022

• Associate Professor Adjunct, The Cooper Union, USA, 2022

• Visiting Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2021 - 2022

Academic Background

• PhD in Architecture, University of Cambridge, UK, 2023

• SMArchS in Design and Computation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2011

• BArch, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA, 2009