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  • Matt Burgermaster

    Part-time Associate Teaching Professor

    Email
    burgermm@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    A - 66 West 12th Street

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    Matt Burgermaster

    Profile

    Matt Burgermaster’s work focuses on the advancement of architecture as a unique form of spatial practice and material production that is deeply entangled with social concerns and ecological processes. This field of inquiry explores various sites, subjects, and techniques of architectural making that intersect practices of both representation and construction. He is a Fellow of the MacDowell Artist Residency and winner of the AIA's New Practices New York Award for emerging firms in New York City. Through his design office, MABU, Matt engages in speculative and commissioned projects that re-imagine the constraints of limited resources as design opportunities. This work seeks new forms of creative resourcefulness and critical practice focused on how the re-making of “as found” objects and environments can act as a vehicle to help us collectively and publicly transform traditional notions of change, value, and waste. MABU’s projects have received numerous design awards from leading professional and academic organizations, including the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Recent awards include the 2026 ACSA Faculty Design Award and 2024 AIA Tri-State Design Award. Published writings include essays in the Journal of Architectural Education, Urban Omnibus, The New York Review of Architecture, and Architectural Strategies in Contemporary Art: A Strange Utility. Matt has taught at other universities in a wide range of academic programs and contexts. He is currently on the faculty at RPI School of Architecture where he teaches design studios focused on circularity and a seminar called “Continuous Constructions”.

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    www.mabuoffice.com

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    Current Courses

    Theories of Architectural Form
    PGAR 5123, Spring 2026

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