Jonathan Dessi-Olive is a researcher, designer, and educator whose work takes a critical approach to building technology while integrating the history and theory of architecture, computational design, and fabrication with bio-materials. He joined the School of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte as an assistant professor in 2022, where he teaches architecture design studios, structures, and biomaterial research seminars. He previously taught at Kansas State University, Georgia Tech, and MIT. Jonathan is also the director of MycoMatters Lab, a design, research, and education laboratory that that develops novel applications of fungi-based materials in structural design, architectural acoustics, and sculpture.
