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MATTHEW COATES
PRESIDENT, COATES DESIGN (AIA LEED© AP NCARB)
Matthew Coates is an award winning architect, with many years of sustainable design and consulting experience. His project design experience includes residential civic and community projects; from art museums and community centers to a LEED© Platinum residence. Whatever the project, Matthew brings a positive energy to the team that promotes creativity and helps transform challenges into innovative and effective design solutions. He is forward thinking, focusing on where architecture and sustainable design are heading using technology to promote the most versatile use of energy and materials.
Matthew is the recipient of numerous honors and awards and has been published in respected publications including: the Massive Change Exhibition, Wall Street Journal, DWELL, Men’s Journal, Environmental Design and Construction, Professional Builder, and The New York Times, among others.
Matthew Coates’ vision of Responsible ArchitectureTM began to take shape when he was just a boy.
Growing up on the shores of Torch Lake in Northern Michigan, Matthew saw rsthand how poorly planned
PUBLICATIONS
Matthew has been published in over 40 well respected publications. Highlights include:
• The Wall Street Journal
• Ville E Case Prefabricate
• Western Art and Architecture
• The New York Times
• Canadian Home Trends
• Sustainable Environments
• EcoHome
• Dwell
• Men’s Journal
• Seattle Met
• Paci c Northwest Magazine
• Sustainable Environments
• Green Homes
• Seattle Magazine
• IDS Magazine
development impacted the water quality, the environment and the way of life in an idyllic community. He was profoundly in uenced by these dramatic changes and they set him on the course that he would follow throughout his life.
After obtaining his undergraduate degree at Lawrence Tech University, Matthew received a full scholarship at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois in Champaign Urbana.
Following graduate school, Matthew traveled extensively throughout Europe and Asia, backpacking throughout the cities and countryside. During his journeys he was exposed to many architectural typologies that would have a major in uence on his later work.
In 2005, Matthew and a team of designers achieved international acclaim by winning the “Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Home Design Competition. Focused on energy use, Matthew’s design was productive rather than consumptive and featured innovative rainwater harvesting and reuse, a rehabilitative vegetation concept, pollution-scrubbing materials and captured solar energy with spinach chlorophyll.
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