Kevin Matthews (architecture)

Kevin Matthews is an architectural writer and editor and environmental planning activist in Eugene, Oregon.

Born in Eugene, he grew up outside Boston, Massachusetts, and went to college mostly in California, at Deep Springs College, University of California, Santa Cruz, Columbia University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

His publications, co-created with many teammates, include The Great Buildings Collection™ (1994), which the Village Voice described as "well on its way to becoming the O.E.D. of architecture", DesignWorkshop® (1993), the online magazine ArchitectureWeek (2000), and the web sites GreatBuildings (1995), Archiplanet (2007), PetitionOnline (1999), and EugeneNeighbors (2008). His photographs have appeared in books, magazines, album covers, in advertising and on commemorative products, and in exhibitions.

In the late 1980s he was the CAD systems architect for the Superconducting Supercollider project at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and in Texas. He taught in the Department of Architecture at UC Berkeley and for eight years at the University of Oregon. He has appeared on national radio and television and has presented on a variety of topics related to architecture, design, media, and community at numerous conferences and workshops across the US and in Europe and Japan.

As a community volunteer he is president of Friends of Eugene and Southeast Neighbors, vice-chair of the LRAPA budget committee, a member and committee chair in the West Eugene Collaborative, and a board member of the Willamette Resources and Education Network (WREN). He currently sits on the City of Eugene's Infill and Compatibility Task Team and the Eugene Comprehensive Lands Assessment Advisory Committee, and was recently chair of the Mayor's Committee on the Amazon Headwaters.

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