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About Matthew Bird (architect)
- Matthew David Bird (born 18 March 1980) is an experimental architect, artist and academic from Melbourne, Australia.
- He practices across a range of disciplines including interior design, set-design, sculpture, installation art and architecture.
- He is well known for his guerrilla-style installations, notably Alphaomega Apartment (2008) where he theatrically transformed a tiny rental apartment with reimagined prosaic materials and unbeknown to the owners.Bird studied architecture at RMIT University and developed professionally in Melbourne’s ‘ideas-lead’ architectural scene of Cassandra Fahey and ARM Architecture.
- Both were environments where research, creative thinking and what-if design established his interests in the unorthodox, pursuing speculative and culturally symbolic ideas.
- In 2008 Bird started his practice Studiobird and commenced a practice-based PhD at RMIT University under the supervision of Professor Leon van Schaik AO.
- Over the next four years Bird undertook a series of practice-based research projects including installation, scenography and sculpture that examined his methodologies, motivations and fuelled his emergent interdisciplinary practice ambitions.
- In recent years Bird has expanded his practice incorporating photography, performance, video art, interactive sculpture and architecture and has presented works at international festivals, galleries and museums both nationally and internationally.
- Bird has exhibited commissioned works at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Festival, Museum of Old and New Art (MONA), and the Venice Architecture Biennale.
- His practice is recognised with numerous honours including a Green Room Award, Australian Interior Design Award and an Australian Institute of Architects VIC Award.
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