_05/31/11: Our landscape installation project 'Fallen Fruit' will be re-installed permanently at Griffis Sculpture Park

_05/11/11: 'SplashHouse', a project by Alfred's Design Workshop 2011 class at Parsons is up on Kickstarter. Check it out (and give them your support!).

_05/04/11: Matter is one of five firms selected to contribute to the Audi Urban Future: Project Manhattan installation 'Mapping Mobility', part of the Festival of the Ideas for the New City.

_03/15/11: 'Peace and Quiet' has been approved for installation in Times Square. Look for it in 2012.

_02/15/11: Matter commissioned to collaborate with the NBM on the conceptual design for the upcoming exhibition 'Intelligent Cities', following their initiative of the same name. Make sure you take the poll!

_11/18/10: MATTER is a finalist for the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Competition...again.

_11/10/10: MATTER wins 'Gimme Shelter: Pierce Street Market', the commission to design a block long urban shade structure for the City of Phoenix

_09/23/10: 'Ecotopiaries' material panels selected for the 'THINK:Material' exhibition at the Material World Pavilion, part of this year's IIDEX/NeoCon Canada Design Expo in Toronto.

_09/21/10: 'Single Thread' is installed at Amsterdam and 76th until 09/28 in case you missed its brief appearance in Union Square. This time you can step inside.

_09/19/10: 'Single Thread' is installed in Union Square, NYC along with eleven other great ideas. [Congratulations to the Fractured Bubble team for winning Peoples' Choice]

_08/26/10: 'Peace and Quiet', a proposal for a temporary structure in Times Square, has been shortlisted for development out of nearly 400 entries submitted to the Times Square Alliance Public Art Program.

_08/13/10: Development begins for a near gut rehabilitation of a Brooklyn row-house using 'Passive House' strategies. We will be consulting with David White of Right Environments to revisit traditional mechanical systems to make this two-family home as efficient as possible.

_08/13/10: Matter is awarded competitive RFP to design the permanent exhibition 'In Pursuit of Freedom', installed across multiple venues in Brooklyn. We'll be collaborating with graphic designers Pure+Applied, and interactive designers Potion.

_08/12/10: Our proposal 'Single Thread' is a winner of the design/build competition 'Sukkah City 2010'. All exciting, but it also means we have to engineer and construct a +/- 200 sqft pavilion in three weeks...

_08/02/10: MATTER selected for invited competition to design shade structures for Phoenix Downtown Public Market at Pierce Street, an initiative of the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

_08/01/10: Alfred Zollinger is named Director of The Design Workshop, the design-build program at Parsons The New School for Design

_06/19/10: Alfred Zollinger is a featured presenter at 'ExhibitionDesign: WERKKONFERENZ 2010' in Düsseldorf, Germany

_05/06/10: MATTER is giving a quickfire talk as part of 'Lighting Presentations: Architecture Inside'. Steelcase Showroom, 4 Columbus Circle, NYC

_04/02/10: Alfred Zollinger is co-organizer and moderator of the symposium 'AfterTaste: Moving In' at Parsons The New School for Design

_05/02/10: 'Fallen Fruit' installed for the group exhibition 'Simultaneous Presence' at Evergreen Museum and Library. Short commentary here.

_04/01/10: 2010 SEGD Honor Award for 'Green Community' at the National Building Museum

_03/24/10: Lecture at Penn State School of Architecture, as part of a series organized around the theme of 'Making'

_02/04/10: New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant awarded for the research project 'Tolerance in Architectural Production'

_02/03/10: 'Narrative/Fabrication', lecture at University of Arizona in Tucson

_12/18/09: AIA Merit award for design of 'Subject to Change' at The RISD Museum

_10/31/09: MATTER selected for commissioned installation as part of Sculpture at Evergreen 2010: Simultaneous Presence

_10/27/09: Tour of MoCA, sponsored by the Architecture League

_09/22/09: The Museum of Chinese in America (MoCA) reopens! with permanent gallery and core exhibition design by MATTER

_08/31/09: MATTER selected for invited competition to design four public shade structures for the Reach 11 Recreational Center in Arizona, an initiative of the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture

_07/15/09: 'Dormitorium: Film Decors by the Quay Brothers' opens. We found this blog with a nice description...catch the actual show before it comes down on 10/04/09. It's not often Quay films can be seen projected large.

_07/08/09: MATTER announced as stage 2 finalist for the 'Gimme Shelter: City of Phoenix National Design Ideas Competition for Urban Shade Structures'

_06/09/09: 2009 SEGD Merit Award for 'Ecotopiaries' installation at the International Center of Photography

_05/15/09: 'RE/Accumulation [Prototype]' installed at Gallery1889

_04/23/09: 'Reading Matter [Prototype]' lecture and exhibition installed at the Hafele Showroom, NYC.

_03/09: MATTER featured in Interior Design magazine