Matthew Dutton is a graduate architecture student and emerging designer whose work moves fluidly between research, material experimentation, and built form. Based in Miami, he works at the intersection of architectural history, ceramics, and contemporary fabrication—investigating how materials carry cultural memory and how design can reveal the human stories embedded within them.

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His ongoing thesis, Who Killed the Brick?, traces the brick’s industrial, political, and symbolic life from hand-formed craft to industrial commodity to contemporary digital surface. Through archival research, fieldwork, and forensic analysis of trade journals, advertisements, and urban demolition economies, he frames brick as a cultural actor—capable of being exploited, forgotten, weaponized, and even resurrected.

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Alongside research, Dutton engages a robust design-build and material practice. His ceramic work ranges from sculptural vessels to full-scale outdoor installations such as Cascade, while his architectural projects—spanning housing, civic buildings, landscape centers, and adaptive-reuse proposals—blend digital fabrication with a sensitivity to local narratives and climatic performance. Recent work includes Garden Villas (a storm-resilient townhouse community in Freeport), Station 24 (a riverfront fire station in Allapattah), and The Machine (a study in adaptive resue and material symbolism).

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Whether excavating the politics of material labor, designing community-scaled systems, or crafting objects by hand, Dutton’s work is united by a belief that architecture is both artifact and agent—something that tells stories and shapes them. He approaches every project with a commitment to research-driven design, material honesty, and the quiet provocation that even the smallest object has a life worth tracing.