Procedural Tectonics
Matthew Rosen (BS Arch '15)
Photo: Matthew Rosen
Matthew Rosen is an architect and a painter, and principal of Twenty Three Calvin. He graduated with honors from the University at Buffalo and holds a Master of Architecture from the Harvard GSD. He has worked at Herzog & deMeuron, collaborated with Sou Fujimoto and built an installation at Art Basel with Virgil Abloh. Matthew currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he leads design and research projects at Twenty Three Calvin, an interdisciplinary architectural practice he founded in 2019 with his partner Marie Stargala.
Like gravity of matter itself, the tools we use have deeply formative effects on the things we make. Because these tools are almost always inherited, we tend to see the choices we make with them, rather than the choice to use them at all, as critical. And yet, using 3D modeling software is far from a neutral act. Digital tools come freighted with the poetics and problematics of our contemporary, statistically-driven moment. They hold within the logical structure of their procedure a deep truth of our epoch; everything is possible at once and it is our choices, not material limits, that are operative. This project explores a language of architectural expression predicated on the processes of digital modeling. It seeks to express the cultural and conceptual value of the digital tools we use to design.
Project Credits: Marie Stargala, John May, Harvard Graduate School of Design
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