Meet Matthew

Matthew Teismann is a registered architect with over 10 years of practice experience whose research focuses on history and philosophy of design, in particular spatial ontology. Teismann attended Kansas State University and Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and has previously taught design studios and history and theory at Kent State University (KSU), University of Technology Sydney (UTS), The Ohio State University [OSU], and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He has published on topics such as the space of globalism, geopolitical spatial encounters, and counterculture architecture. 

Teismann has studied & practiced in both the US and Europe. Prior to joining MKC Architects he co-founded LIONarchitecture, an architecture firm that explores and underscores architecture’s existential role with humanity. Teismann joined MKC in 2016 as Director of Design and has since become President & CFO, serving as Principal-in-charge on numerous projects of varying scale and type, including K-12 / higher education / institutional / housing. Teismann currently serves on the Board of Directors for AIA Columbus.

Honors & Awards

AIA Ohio Charles J. Marr Citation [2022]

AIA Ohio Emerging Professionals Award [2021]

Aurora Building Awards - Best on the Boards Custom Home [2020]

AIA Columbus Merit Award - Project Innovation [2019]

AIA Columbus Merit Award - Unbuilt Project [2017]

Harvard Kennedy School Indonesia Program: Research Grant Award [2014]

Monsters of Design: Best Unbuilt Project [2012]

PUBLICATIONS

‘An Ideological City: Koolhaas’ Exodus in the Second Ecumene,’ in Jorge Figueira, Gonçalo Canto Moniz (eds.) Ideas and Practices for the European City, Joelho 08 [Combria: 2017) pp. 52-65

‘An Emerging International: The Imperial Gaze of the Monster Globe in 1851,’ Fabrications 27:1, Taylor & Francis, (London: 2017)

‘The Inverted View: Of Crystals, Mirrors, & Globes,’ Radical Space in Between Disciplines conference proceedings, University of Novi Sad, (Novi Sad: 2015) pp. 33-40

'The Impossible Friendship,' PLOT Revista_30, (Buenos Aires: August/September 2014) p. 74

'Futureless,' KTISMA: University of Oregon Department of Architecture Journal' 1.1 (Eugene: University of Oregon Press, 2012) pp 13-16.

'Imagination's Shadow: perception, conception, and (un)known in architecture' Lantern Journal_Volume I, Issue4 - online journal, www.lanternjournal.org. ISSN 2166-3793 (2012)

'Anti-Haptic Experience: Critical Analysis of the Role of the Sense of Touch,' Oz Architecture Journal_vol 30. (Kansas State University Press, 2008) pp. 34-35

CONFERENCES

Vernacular Architectural Forum Annual Meeting [Plymouth, Massachusetts 2023]

‘Architecture Without Origins: Cultural and Spiritual Estrangement in Postcolonial Bawomataluo’

Displacement & Domesticity since 1945 Conference | EAHN & KU Leuven [Brussels, Belgium 2019]

‘Living Within the Absurd: Albert Camus and Social Estrangement’

Society of Architecture Historians [SAH] Annual Conference [St. Paul, Minnesota 2018]

‘The Inverted Sphere: Birth of the Georama’

Le Corbusier: What Moves Us? Conference [Aarhus, Denmark 2015]

‘Closed Hands: Disembodiment in Le Corbusier’s Postwar Paintings’

Radical Space In Between Disciplines Conference | Scen Centre for Scene Design, Architecture and Technology [Novi Sad, 2015]

‘The Inverted View: Of Crystals, Mirrors, & Globes’

APDesign | AIAS Special Lecture [Manhattan, Kansas 2014]

‘Non-Operational Architecture: Meta-Phenomenology and the (Un)known’

Redesigning Cities: Well-being, Identity and History | Harvard University Kennedy School of Government [Cambridge, Massachusetts 2014]

‘Architecture Without Origins’

[in]Arch Conference: Interiority and Interior Architecture | Universitas Indonesia [Jakarta, Indonesia 2014]

'Inner Territories: Capacious Geometries in Space and Mind'

What Criticism? Symposium | Harvard University Graduate School of Design [Cambridge, Massachusetts 2014]

Panel Moderator, 'Impossible Friendship' Panel, Research and Communication

COMMITTEES & MEMBERSHIPS

AIA Columbus | Treasurer [2022-Present]

AIA Columbus | Board of Directors [2019-Present]

AIA Columbus } Co-Chair Committee on Design [2017-2019]

University of Technology Sydney | Design, Architecture, and Building Faculty Board Member [2015-2016]

University of Technology Sydney| Academic Administration Committee