Matthew Spremulli

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

AEC Engagement Manager, Autodesk Technology Centers

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Matthew Spremulli is an Engagement Manager with Autodesk Technology Centers. He helped launched the Technology Center chapter at the Toronto office in 2018 – bringing in academics, entrepreneurs, and industry groups to explore the “future of making” within a Residency Program. He currently focuses on AEC-based residents.

Matthew is passionate about democratizing technology as well as public engagement/exhibition projects. He was a co-director of the “Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15” project representing Canada at the 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale. He was lead research-designer on the “Future of Suburbia” with MITs Center for Advanced Urbanism for their 2016 Research Biennale. And most recently he was Research Coordinator for the Living Architecture Systems Group.

Matthew also teaches at UofTs Landscape Architecture program introducing new media and technologies within design and representation courses.

- Matthew Spremulli is an Engagement Manager at Autodesk Research. He received his Masters in Architecture focusing on digital media, fabrication and urban/landscape design. He has received various awards including a Special Mention from the Società di Cultura La Biennale di Venezia (with Lateral Office) and the Frank Lloyd Wright Fellowship from the University of Toronto.

- Professionally Matthew has pursued experimental and research-based activities within architectural design focusing on the intersection of interactive technologies, urban/landscape design, fabrication, and visual communication.

- Matthew has extensive experience in design research, experimental practice and education. He has led numerous award winning design projects and high-profile public exhibitions. He was a co-director of the “Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15” project representing Canada at the 2014 Venice Architectural Biennale. He was lead research-designer on the “Future of Suburbia” with MITs Center for Advanced Urbanism for their 2016 Research Biennale. And most recently he was Research Coordinator for the Living Architecture Systems Group forging collaborations between designers, researchers, and industry leaders on experimental architectures that imbue ‘living’ qualities.

- Matthew has taught and lectured on digital media and design at several Universities. Currently, he is a Lecturer at the University of Toronto: Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design while being affiliated with the Centre for Landscape Research. Through these two roles he explores experimental applications of digital media in landscape architecture focusing on simulation, animation, fabrication and hybrid forms of visual media. Matthew teaches parametric design using Visual Programming Tools like Dynamo/Grasshopper, he also models small industrial design projects with Fusion 360, and complex organic forms in Maya.

- Matthew has helped numerous fabrication/manufacturing companies throughout the GTA (Greater Toronto Area) focusing on how to digitize the companies with both software and digital fabrication hardware. He has specialized in woodworking for stairs, railings, and finish carpentry.

- When not working Matthew enjoys traveling to new places, especially where he can go open-water diving or hiking. He also frequents art events, galleries, exhibitions and arcades.