Evan Mathison
Evan is a co-founding principal of MMA, and primarily focuses on concept design, project management, project development, and office management.
His work includes diverse public and private projects, ranging from complex renovations and additions to new construction for a variety of clients. His work is rooted in a desire to create ambiguity between the indoors and outdoors, heightening the awareness of a site in an architectural response.
Evan earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Traveling Fellowship in 2001, which is given each year to a graduating senior of exceptional promise and accomplishment who is committed to service and the public good. In 2003, Evan moved to the east coast to attend Harvard University, where he earned his Master of Architecture degree from their Graduate School of Design in 2006.
While at Harvard, his work focused on the relationship between landscape and architecture, from site planning to the development of human-scale details, with a pragmatic focus on craft. His experience at his first firm out of college expanded his approach to give priority to the subjective, heightening the direct human experience through architectural form. This was grounded in an inclusive design process based on open dialog and relationship building and was realized by employing landscape design strategies and architectural responses to create dynamic and continuous spatial sequences from interior to exterior.
Evan is passionate about education and mentorship and has enjoyed various teaching opportunities, such as design studio instructor for the Harvard University Career Discovery Program, guest lectures for professional practice courses in architecture at Harvard, and as a design critic for numerous design studios at Harvard University, Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology and the Boston Architectural Center.
Evan’s projects have received several design awards and have been published in a variety of books and magazines, as well as having been part of exhibitions in New England and New York.