Michael Morris was born in London, England. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Environmental Design from Parsons School of Design in 1985 and Bachelor of Architecture with honors from The Cooper Union in 1989. In addition to numerous honors and awards, in 1991 Morris was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to Ireland, and the Paris Prize in architecture for urban proposals for Dublin and New York. In 2000, Morris and Sato received an honorable mention for their Architecture for Humanity's competition entry for Kosovo Refugee Housing. In 1995 and 1999, Morris was the curator and designer for two widely recognized exhibitions, Sarajevo: Dream Reality and Renaissance and Reconstruction in the Balkans. He has taught and lectured independently and jointly with Sato at The Cooper Union, Parsons, Cornell University, Harvard University, Columbia University, the Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin, Germany, the Kanazawa International Design Institute in Kanazawa, Japan, and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, NL. Since 1993, Morris has taught architecture and environmental design studios, material, digital architecture, and day lighting courses at Parsons The New School for Design's School of Constructed Environments. In 2009 Morris lectured with Sato at the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus, Ohio and independently at several symposiums concerning environmental sustainability as related to his firm's work and research.
