Matt Shaw is a New York–based author, editor, and columnist, whose work focuses on architecture as an instrument of political, social, and cultural shifts. He has been published in the New York Times, The Guardian, e-flux, Artforum, The Architectural Review, and Domus. He is the author of American Modern: Architecture, Community, Columbus, Indiana (Moncelli, 2024) and is the co-founder of the experimental project space Hot Air in downtown New York. He has previously served as Executive Editor of Architect’s Newspaper, where the online publication won an International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA) honorable mention. He has served as the Distinguished Visiting Professor of Practice at University of Arkansas and teaches critical writing and media studies at UPenn, The Cooper Union, and SCI-Arc. Shaw has served on a number of advisory boards, awards committees, and built project juries.
