Matthias Hollwich

Matthias Hollwich, SBA, is a registered European architect and cofounder of Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) and Architizer. HWKN is a New York-based group of architects, designers, social media experts, and inventors operating within the field of architecture, urbanism, branding, digital media, and development. Architizer is the world's largest social media site for architecture.

Before cofounding HWKN and ARCHITIZER, Matthias worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam, and Diller + Scofidio in New York.  He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where, in 2010, he organized “New Aging: An International Conference on Aging and Architecture."

In 2004, Matthias finished editing his book at the Bauhaus: UmBauhaus—Updating Modernism (Jovis). Currently he is working on New Aging, a manifest on aging and architecture to be published in the fall of 2012. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Bauwelt, Architects Magazine, Dwell, among other publications. He has been a speaker at TED_U, TED_X Atlanta, and PICNIC in Amsterdam.

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