Matthew teaches a two course sequence on digital media that builds technical skills in image making, mapping, modeling, and drawing while giving students a conceptual foundation in reading, contextualizing, and self-criticizing media artifacts. The courses introduce students to visual epistemology and visual rhetoric - challenging students to confront: how media produce, capture, and communicate knowledge; how they are shaped by what we already know and contain conscious and unconscious biases; how drawing and mapping formats contain and shape worldviews; how authors use the conventions of media to make arguments and seek to persuade; how techniques of production influence our modes of thought, etc. Students learn the relationship between material logics and digital ones, engaging the processes of transformation and abstraction that move between them. Students learn to work with pixel and vector based media, 3d modeling, as well as data driven media such as GIS and data visualization platforms.In the Masters of Architecture program, Matthew also team teaches a comprehensive architectural design studio focused on synthesizing complex, interacting performance criteria. Students are introduced to ecological thinking and systems thinking as modes of navigating these complexities. They must understand the role that a building plays in a community in terms of equity, economy, and identity through stakeholder and demographic analysis; they must use computational workflows, including various simulation softwares, to visualize and understand the impact of invisible forces on the performance of buildings, mapping structural forces to optimize material use, mapping daylight to optimize human health and performance, tracking energy outcomes on multiple shapes, configurations, and material assemblies to facilitate low carbon operation. Students must also examine material use through the long process of sourcing, labor practices, and embedded carbon.

As an adjunct, Matthew taught core design studios at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with an emphasis on incorporating into architectural design: computational simulation tools, evidence and performance based processes, methods of drawing and mapping ecological processes and flows in order to operate upon them and work with them, machines for producing energy and devices for passively improving thermal comfort, concepts in thermodynamics, close observation and attunement to place, and understandings of urban and landscapes systems. He taught a seminar course on the multiplicitous, contested, and evolving concept of nature in the discipline of architecture. The course worked its way through classical aesthetics, environmental ethics and justice, ecofeminism, indigenous cosmologies and vernacular knowledge, and much more. Matthew is engaged in research on using recycled materials and carbon minimal materials and processes through additive manufacturing, including through structural optimization, weight reduction, and latticing. The research is conducted with principal investigators and CMU faculty, Dana Cupkova and Josh Bard. Matthew managed a team of research assistants within the grant funded project.Matthew worked with Cupkova, artist Edith Abetya and community organization Center of Life to procure grant funding and construct a collaborative design process between CMU and a community art camp resulting in the fabrication and installation of outdoor urban play structures at a community park and tree nursery. The structures demonstrate the material research being conducted at CMU, promote environmental stewardship, embed messaging authored by the community, and function as teeter totters, water collection devices, and planters for children to play upon.

As Chief Strategist - Urban Systems Intelligence, I lead the fusion of data-driven insights, systems analysis, and spatial design. By drawing upon a background in architecture, planning, and research, I work with our team to uncover hidden patterns in cities, and create future-ready strategies that shape intelligent, adaptive urban environments. Bridging the gap between mathematical theory and practical design, I help turn complex systems into actionable, sustainable plans for cities of tomorrow.

Provided concept level strategy to a corporate client for low carbon development (including locally soured biogenic materials), experimental visions for the future of a post-COVID workplace, and worked with diverse stakeholders to foster a shared mission and space plan for a community engagement platform aimed toward a more equity-oriented relationship between the company and its neighbors through education and empowerment. Provided technical guidance, design mentorship, and support to junior full-time staff.

Matthew's work with BCJ encompasses a comprehensive range of scales, project phases, and client types - from masterplanning at the urban scale, strategic visioning, sustainability initiatives and frameworks at the institutional level, to design and construction administration on custom high-performance building envelope components. He has worked with large corporate clients, research institutions, and small mission driven non-profits. He has led and organized large, multi-consultant teams; participated in communication strategies; shepherded core/shell and building envelope design from concept through documentation to delivery; and brought a unique capacity to utilize and develop digital tools to visualize, map, and simulate multi-parameter design processes. Matthew is a thought leader, but also a facilitator of shared visions, running sessions with diverse stakeholders to establish project values and goals, and to coauthor design concepts with clients. His project experience includes work with: Google, Carnegie Mellon University, Under Armour, The Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy, Apple, Disney, Duke University, Bucknell University, and more.