Matthew Howland

Matthew Barnett Howland is a British architect with extensive experience in architectural practice and research. He studied architecture at Cambridge University and Bartlett UCL, and has worked in offices such as Buschow Henley in London and Jestico & Whiles in Prague. From 2015 to 2018, he co-directed MPH Architects, leading a research team on ‘Solid Cork Building Envelope’, funded by Innovate UK and EPSRC. The result of this project was Cork House, completed in 2019, an innovative building made almost entirely of solid cork, designed with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton, and self-built by Matthew.

Matthew is currently Director of Research and Development at CSK Architects in Eton and Associate Professor at UCL’s Bartlett School of Architecture, where he leads the Technology teaching strategy on the new MSci Architecture course. In addition, he has worked on projects such as an all-wood prefabricated hill house, a ‘net zero carbon’ country house built with reclaimed stone from the site and a model barn for a biodynamic farm in Berkshire.