Matthias Altwicker
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Architecture
Campus: New York City
Education Credentials: B.Arch, M.U.P.
Industry Credentials: RA, LEED AP, AIA
Joined New York Tech: 2002
Matthias Altwicker is an architect and professor. His firm, Studio A+H is currently working on a wide range of projects in the metropolitan area, from new construction (affordable senior housing on Atlantic Avenue) to adaptive reuse (renovations of turn-of-the-century buildings in Brooklyn) to public outreach (studies for City Of Yes Zoning for the City Council of NY). His firm is also committed to research and has worked for the last 10 years on representing and exhibiting new perspectives on public housing, open space, and housing density to the broader public. Matthias is also the senior architect for the NYC office of the Danish architecture firm 3XN; managing constructed projects throughout North America, including the award-winning T3 mass timber building in Toronto.
Recent Projects/Research
- T3 / TORONTO – 11 story office building; tallest commercial mass timber building in North America, 2024.
- BATHURST HOUSING – Mixed use development with 3 floors of commercial space, 14 floors of residential, and 350 units. 2025.
- MAZZA GALLERIE – Mixed use development with 2 floors of commercial space, 6 floors of residential, and 350 units. 2025.
- CITY OF YES – Modeling and representing new campus zoning throughout the 5 boroughs. 2024.
- SENIOR LIVING ON ATLANTIC AVENUE – 650 units of senior housing with green interior spaces. In planning.
- 111 HICKS STREET – 5,500SF residential renovation and building systems reconfiguration. 2025
- MIXED USE COMPLEX – 135 residential units, commercial and public spaces extending the downtown of Cocoa Village. 2023
- LIVING IN THE SHADE; FXC Gallery and LGACC; Exhibition on NYCHA open space research (w/ Nicholas Dagen Bloom),2025
- HOUSING DENSITY; Skyscraper Museum (w/ Nicholas Dagen Bloom), 2020
- Affordable Housing NY, East Harlem Gallery (w/Nicholas Dagen Bloom and Matt Lasner), 2016
- Research and exhibitions of affordable housing and housing density in New York City
- Low-cost prefabricated housing and apartment solutions
- Flexible commercial space and furniture systems
- Studies in flexible urban design and building types in Brooklyn and Berlin
Publications and Presentations
- “Driven to Distraction”; Essay in Architecture In Progress, editors Blumberg / Hall, Taylor & Francis, 2025
- Tall Wood Buildings: Design, Construction and Performance. 3rd edition; Michael Green, Jim Taggart; 2025
- “T3 Toronto” Canadian Architect, Fall 2024
- “Healthy Sustainable Practices Addressing the Housing Crisis” – Invited Panelist, New York Build Expo 2024
- “The Unfamiliar”; NCBDS Conference of the Beginning Design Student, Fargo ND, May 2023
- “Housing Density”; ongoing curator tours and lecture presentations as part of the programming; May-December 2019
- “Circularity” – Invited Panel organized but the Society of Marketing Professionals, New York, September 2018
- “Cube House” in Atlas of Brutalist Architecture; Phaidon, 2018
- “With Federal Help, A Big Project Reset Shows the Way at NYCHA”, Gotham Gazette, 2017
- “Yes, there is room to build more housing in New York City”; Crain’s New York, 2017
- “Eastwood” in Affordable Housing in New York: The People, Places, and Policies That Transformed a City, 2015
- Beyond Petropolis, co-editor and author, ORO Publishing, 2015
Honors and Awards
- T3/Toronto – tallest mass timber commercial building; Forest Stewardship Council Award; Design and Build Category.
- Tall Timber – The Future of Cities in Wood. Skyscraper Museum NY; April-November 2024-5
- MIXED USE COMPLEX – Cocoa Village, FLA; selected RFP.
- YOU ARE NOT ALONE – Fort Lauderdale, FLA –art installation at the ArtsUp Space, selected by juried review.
- HOUSING DENSITY; This exhibition installed at the Skyscraper Museum co-curated by Matthias Altwicker and Nicholas Dagen Bloom
- DesigNYC competition award for “Fulton Street Vision Plan”
- “Flexible Building” selected for A4D International Open Building Conference
- Selected for exhibition at “Young Americans,” Deutsches Architekturmuseum
- Vision Long Island, Smart Growth Award “Next Generation Housing”
- Building Brooklyn Award, Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce “Best Industrial Building”
Courses Taught at New York Tech
- All design studios and all building technology courses