Matthew Allen is a PhD candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He has an MArch from the GSD and degrees in physics and the comparative history of ideas, and he has worked previously in the video game and bioengineering industries.
Allen is also a lecturer at the University of Toronto, and he worked at several internationally-recognized firms, most recently for Preston Scott Cohen, Inc., and MOS.
Read more here: https://matthewallen.academia....
Drawing a Blank: Harvard GSD's Recent Exhibition, Inscriptions, Asks Visitors to Imagine Architecture Before Speech, Wed, Sep 26 '18
Inscriptions: Architecture before Speech, the inaugural exhibition of the Drucker Design Gallery at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, prompted visitors to “read” the works on display as blank pages might be read. In an essay on artworks that take the form of blank pages ...
"architecture, architectural & Architecture" - 100 Young Architects Present Their Post-Digital Microcosms at the A+D Museum, Wed, Aug 16 '17
I may be stepping over some kind of line by reviewing an exhibition that I have something in, but I promise to assume the responsibility of the critic—that is, to be critical, even self-critical. And to have a point. The eminent art critic Claire Bishop recently lamented that there haven’t ...
Cross-Talk #2: Matthew Allen on 'Pedagogy' Today, Wed, Jul 26 '17
Not so long ago, not everyone would be expected to graduate from high school. (Graduation rates in the US: 1900: 6%; 1930: 55%; 2016: 83%.) Now college is more or less mandatory in many lines of work, and an advanced degree is almost a requirement to be an architect. But somehow an old idea ...
