Andrew Kudless is a designer based in San Francisco where he is an assistant professor at the California College of the Arts. In 2004, he founded Matsys, a design studio exploring the emergent relationships between architecture, engineering, biology, and computation. Andrew has taught at the Architectural Association, Yale University and The Ohio State University where he was the Howard E. LeFevre Fellow for Emerging Practitioners. He has a Master of Arts in Emergent Technologies and Design from the Architectural Association and a Master of Architecture from Tulane University. Andrew’s work has received several honors including a FEIDAD Design Merit Award and a Fulbright Fellowship. The work of Matsys has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.