Brent Sherwood

Recognized under Tier 3 — Structural Habitats & Space Architecture, Brent Sherwood has built a distinguished career spanning space architecture, planetary base design, and strategic planning for human space settlement. Sherwood's work — including influential writings on space architecture, contributions to habitat design concepts for planetary surfaces, and a current role at Blue Origin developing commercial space systems — reflects a career-long commitment to thinking rigorously and ambitiously about how humanity will actually establish a permanent presence in space. The integrated systems thinking Sherwood brings to space settlement design, bridging engineering, architecture, and operations, is essential to moving from aspirations to viable plans.