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Matthew Geldin

Matthew Geldin

Claremont, CA, US

 

About 

Matthew's Travel Blog on Archinect:

A Wild Cadence : Design Discovery on Two Wheels and Steel

Living measures across the landscapes of Earth, rolling along the asphalt incision of world wilderness. Exploring the diversity of global urbanism from the ground. An intimately personal inquiry of lifestyle and limits, architecture and agriculture, organization and entropy, climate and cosmos.

Point of embarcation: Los Angeles, California.
First Destination: Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Final Destination: Unknown.

"I have no special talent, I am only passionately curious." _Einstein

Category Title

Employment 

Freelancer, Claremont, CA, US, Designer

Web & Graphic Design. Landscape & Urban Design. Photography.

May 2013 - current
 

Future Self, World Traveler

1200 miles in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam by bicycle. Brick making in Thailand. Photography in Myanmar.

Jan 2013 - May 2013
 

Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Arcadia, CA, US, Gardener

Assisted with garden tasks from pruning and weeding to visitor engagement. Worked directly with Arboretum supervisors and curators to maintain naturalistic and classical gardens within this 127 acre historic public monument. Practiced developing focus, attention to detail, and positivity through arduous tasks, as much as gardening technique.

Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
 

Farmscape, Claremont, CA, US, Urban Farmer

Farmed the sprawl with like-minded pioneers on the emergent urban agriculture frontier, installing and maintaining raised- bed vegetable gardens in clients’ front and back yards. Personally raised and harvested hundreds of pounds of produce while cultivating local food culture in Southern California.

May 2010 - Dec 2010
 

Education 

California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Pomona, CA, US, Bachelors, Landscape Architecture

Sep 2009 - Jun 2012
 

Awards 

Great Places Awards, Place Planning, Award

The award is for work that exemplifies the concern for human factors in the design of the built environments and a commitment to promoting links between design research and practice. The jury evaluates projects that address the human experience of well-designed places with special attention given to the transferability of research about human experience of place into design. The awards invites participation from a range of design and research disciplines, recognizing projects whose significance extends beyond any one profession or field. Projects show how research and/or citizen participation is linked to or part of practice, demonstrating that an understanding of human interaction with place has generated the design.

EDRA is an international, interdisciplinary organization founded in 1968.
The purpose of EDRA is the advancement and dissemination of environmental design research, thereby improving understanding of the interrelationships between people, their built and natural surroundings, and helping to create environments responsive to human needs.
http://www.edra.org/

2012
 

BEST STUDENT PROJECT AWARD-APPLIED RESEARCH, Award

Presented by the American Institute of Certified Planners - National Award

2012
 

Student Honor Award, Award

Presented by the American Society of Landscape Architects, Southern California Chapter

2012
 

Dangermond Travelling Scholarship, Scholarship

Presented by Jack Dangermond & The Department of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly Pomona.

$5,000 traveling scholarship. Helped send me to study in China for 1 month at the North China University of Technology in a multidisciplinary historic preservation and urban design research project.

2011
 

Areas of Specialization 

Skills