Andrew Kudless

Andrew Kudless is a designer based in Houston, Texas where he is the Bill D. Kendall Professor at the University of Houston’s Hines College of Architecture & Design as well as the Director of the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technologies Lab (CRAFT Lab). In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio that pursues a trans-disciplinary and trans-scalar practice that blends art, design, architecture, and engineering. Matsys is the recipient of several awards including the 2019 AIA Honor Award for Architecture and a AIA Top Ten COTE Award in 2023, both for Confluence Park with Lake|Flato Architects. The work of Matsys has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France. In 2019, Kudless became the first American designer to contribute to Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades furniture collection. Kudless is the co-author of Flux: Architecture in a Parametric Landscape and Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation.