Education
2026 Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA)
2007 Ph.D. in Architecture and Design
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (WAAC)
Diss: “Assembling the Ineffable in Kurt Schwitters’ Models”
Co-chairs: Dr. Marco Frascari and Dr. Paul Emmons
1999 Masters of Architecture
The University of Pennsylvania
Frank Miles Award for Best Paper in History & Theory
1995 Bachelors of Architecture
The Pennsylvania State University
Kossman Thesis Award: Honorable Mention
1994 Bachelors of Arts in Philosophy
The Pennsylvania State University
Concentration in: Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion
Selected Publications
Books
Self-Authored Monographs
Matthew Mindrup, Architecture and the Art of Forgetting: An Exercise in Tactics (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2026)
Matthew Mindrup, The Architectural Model: Histories of Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2019)
Edited Books and Translations
Matthew Mindrup & Lilian Chee, eds., Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance (London: Lund Humphries, 2022)
Bruno Taut, The City Crown, trans and ed. by Matthew Mindrup and Ulrike Altenmüller-Lewis (London: Routledge, 2015)
Matthew Mindrup, ed. The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter (London: Routledge, 2014)
Essays
Journal Publications (Please see CV for a complete list)
Matthew Mindrup, “Discontinuity, Again: Discontinuity, the Minotaur and the Re-individuation of Architecture," Inflection: Regeneration 11 (December 2024): 106-113.
Matthew Mindrup, “Model matters: starting with found materials,” The Architectural Review, no. 1506 (November 2023): 20-23. LINK
Matthew Mindrup, “From Dolls House to Dream House,” Architecture Theory Review 27, no. 4 (2023): 227-97. LINK
Matthew Mindrup, “The Architect’s Task: A Short Reflection on the Use of Models as Structural Expressionism,” ARQ 25, no. 1 (2021): 5-16.
Matthew Mindrup, “Thinking and Imagining Architecture at a Distance with Models,” Montreal Architecture Review 6 (2019): 45-59.
Matthew Mindrup, “Kurt Schwitters’ Architectural Models,” in Journal of the Kurt Schwitters Society (2014).Book Chapters (Please see CV for a complete list)
Book Chapters
Matthew Mindrup, “Surrealist Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of Reuse” in Finishing: The Ends of Architecture, ed. P. Emmons, M. Feuerstein, N. Goljan (London: Routledge, 2024).
Matthew Mindrup and Jodi laCoe, “Fresh Eyes: The Practice of the Remote at the Bauhaus,” in Remote Practices: Architecture at a Distance, ed. Matthew Mindrup & Lilian Chee (London: Lund Humphries, 2022), 74-80.
Matthew Mindrup, “Greek Temple Design and the Merzbau,” The Routledge Handbook on the Reception of Classical Architecture, ed. Nicholas Temple (London: Routledge, 2019), 477-488.
Matthew Mindrup,“Strange Tales of Architectural Evolution” in Confabulations, ed. Marcia Feuerstein, Paul Emmons, Carolina Dayer (London: Routledge, 2016), 141-150.
Matthew Mindrup, “Bauspiel as material investigation: Avant-garde experiments
with generative architectural models,” in Materiaity in Architecture, ed. Sandra Karina Löschke (London: Routledge, 2016), 195-212.
Podcasts
Selected Teaching
(Please see CV for a complete list)
University of Sydney
2025 MARC5010/5020 Architectural Studio 1
BDES1011: Architectural History and Theory 1
2020-23 BAEN3002: Capstone Studio
2021-22 MARC6020: Architecture Thesis
2020-24 MARC4009: Architectural Research Methods
2019 MARC4102: Modern Architectural Theory
2017 BDES2027: Second Year Design Studio
2016-18 BAEN2001: Design Integration Lab Materials
2016-17 DESA3008: The Architectural Model
2016 BDES1021: First Year Design Studio
2015-16 MARC4002: PG Design Sudio
2015 BDES3026: Third Year Design Studio
University of Canberra
2014 8398 Design Studio 2.1
2014 8404 Graduation Studio 3.2 Third year UG
2014 8400: Introduction to Architectural History I
Marywood Univeristy
2013 ARCH 450 Fifth year UG
2010-12 ARCH 210-20 2nd year UG
2009-10 ARCH 101-02 First year UG
2014 8400: Introduction to Architectural History I
Carleton University
2007-09 ARCS 5106 First-year Graduate
2006 ARCS 2015 Second year UG
Selected Creative Works
(Please see CV for a complete list)
Installations and Constructions
2012 Nominal Topographies; Lackawanna Arts and Culture Grant
Ongoing Architectural Monsters: Exercises in Spatial Composition
Without Adhesion
2004 An architectural allegory about research
Architecture
2025 Off-Grid Passive Solar Cabin; Manchester Center VT
2015 Rothrock Forest Cabin: Keil Cabin
2002 First Prize: Neubau Universitaet Luzern Competition;
Architectural Desiger
Copyright Matthew Mindrup 2026
Matthew Mindrup, PhD
Associate Professor of Architecture
Matthew is an architect and architectural-historian at the University of Sydney whose research explores the role of materials, and especially physical models or found objects in the conception and construction of architecture. His research is published in several journals, edited books and self-authored monographs about which he lectures frequently. Matthew teaches design studio and surveys on architectural history/theory.
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(e): matthew.mindrup@sydney.edu.au