Brooklyn based MATTER PRACTICE was co-founded
in 2002 by Sandra Wheeler and Alfred Zollinger. MATTER’s work encompasses architecture from the intimate to the urban scale, exhibition design, custom fabrication, and investigative proposals for the public environment. Recent honors include a New York State Council of the Arts Independent projects grant, AIA New Practices New York, PS1/MoMa Young Architects Program (finalist), and top honors for exhibition design from the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers. They have recently been named winners of the competitions Sukkah City and the Times Square Alliance Public Art Program, for temporary pavilions sited in Union Square and Times Square respectively. MATTER has designed exhibitions for
the National Building Museum, Kellen Gallery at Parsons The New School for Design, Museum of Art at Rhode Island School of Design, the International Center of Photography, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Anchorage Museum of History and Art, the Minnesota Historical Society History Center, and the Center for Architecture in New York, among others. Recently completed is the permanent exhibition for the new Museum of Chinese in America, a LEED project in collaboration with artist Maya Lin. Current projects include sustainable urban shade structures for the City of Phoenix, and a near gut renovation of a Brooklyn rowhouse using ‘Passive House’
strategies. MATTER’s work has been featured in FRAME,
Interior Design, Architectural Record, New York Times; and the publications What is Exhibition Design?, Transmaterial 3, and New Exhibition Design 02.