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Nicholas de Monchaux

Nicholas de Monchaux is a professor and the head of architecture at MIT and a partner in the architecture practice, modem. He is the author of Local Code and Spacesuit.

The Bra-and-Girdle Maker That Fashioned the Impossible for NASA

Crafting a spacesuit demanded perfection from seamstresses to gluers to engineers — every stitch could mean life or death

April 14, 2026