Welcome!

This is the workingsurface of Matthew Bissen, aia.

Workingsurface is the idea that the surfaces around us which define and shape our world are inherently malleable. We have the agency through design and our everyday lives to craft the surfaces, spaces, and the world we want to inhabit. Working surfaces is a way to imagine and support a more equitable, just, creative, and environmentally responsible world.

Thank you for joining me.

@matthewalking | @matthew_walking | @workingsurface | Matthew Bissen aia

Past & Present

Collaborators & Teams

Where I design, teach, and research…

Circular City + Living Systems Lab - University of Washington w/ Gundula Proksch

University of Washington - Part-time Faculty, Department of Architecture

Integrus Architecture - Senior Project Designer

Best Practice Architecture - Design Drawing at the University of Washington w/ Kailin Gregga

Buoyant Design - Voices of Immigration Station photography, Inscape Arts

Ennead - Project Architect

NANO - Issue 6 guest editor w/ Laurene Vaughan

BldgTyp - Park Place Remodel

University of Washington Tacoma - Guest Lecture for Lindsay McCunn, Psychology

McGranahan Architects - Director of Design & Research

Martin Family - Remodel

Parsons The New School for Design - Part-time Faculty & Studio Critic, School of Constructed Environments

1067 PacificPeople - The Potential of Place?

Hunter College - Part-time Faculty, Department of Urban Affairs & Planning

Johnston Architects - Project Architect

The Free University of New York & Occupy University - Organizer

Studio Design Reviews & Feedback Sessions

Where I volunteer to provide design insight and feedback

institution, school or department

Parsons The New School for Design, Constructed Environments

Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation

Pratt Institute, School of Architecture

Parsons The New School for Design, Art, Design History and Theory

University of Washington Tacoma, Urban Studies

Hunter College, Urban Policy and Planning

University of Washington, Built Environments

Inglemoor High School, Design

Support

Where I donate funding and time

Seattle Public Library - Friends of The Seattle Public Libraries + The Seattle Public Library Foundation

KEXP - Amplifier

Duwamish Tribe - Real Rent Duwamish

Pike Place Market - Friends of Pike Place Market + The Pike Place Market Foundation

University Heights Center for the Community - Past Board President

Vera Project - Donor

contact

mdbissen@gmail.com          |         917.628.5890