Matthew Huber

Matthew Huber is Special Faculty at Carnegie Mellon Architecture, where he teaches within the core undergraduate and graduate design studios. His teaching focuses on issues of ecology, environmental ethics, ontology and tectonics, building performance, and methods of construction. Integrated with studio-based design teaching, Matthew provides computational support through advanced modeling, simulation and parametric skills workshops. He previously taught a theory seminar entitled “From Acanthus to the Anthropocene,” which asked students to survey and interrogate various modes of engagement between architecture and discourses on nature in the arts, humanities and natural sciences. His research on taxonomy, Alexander von Humboldt’s Naturgemälde, and early theories of architectural typology has been presented to the German Studies Association and elsewhere.

Matthew spent over eight years in practice with Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, where he accrued a breadth of experiences ranging from large scale masterplans and sustainability frameworks, to delivering high performance building envelopes and developing custom facade details that reimagine new potentials for historic craft traditions. He currently acts as a research assistant to principal investigators and architecture faculty Dana Cupkova and Joshua Bard on an interrelated set of projects examining binder jet printing with recycled granular construction waste, shape optimization using computational tools, and intertwining ecological and material intelligences through complex morphological processes.

Matthew holds a Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) from Carnegie Mellon University and studied as a visiting student at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.