Matthew Oudens, AIA, LEED AP, MCPPO
Principal

Matthew Oudens is a founding principal at Oudens Ello Architecture with over thirty years of experience specializing in academic, institutional, and cultural projects and demonstrating commitment to a sustainable future. His award-winning work includes the LEED Gold certified Eastham Public Library on Cape Cod, recognized with a 2018 AIA / ALA Library Building Award honoring the best library architecture in the country, the Norwell Public Library in Norwell, MA, Gladys E. Kelly Library in Webster, MA and renovations to the Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, MA. Among his current responsibilities, Matt is serving as lead principal for a new Center for Art + Ideas at Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY, a renovation-expansion of the Cahoon Museum of Art in Cotuit, MA, a new nature center at Mass Audubon’s Brewster’s Woods Wildlife Sanctuary, a master plan for the Ohlstrom Library at the St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH and numerous municipal library projects for the cities of Boston and Gloucester, MA and towns of Barnstable (Cotuit), Hanson, Northbridge, Yarmouth and Shutesbury, MA.

Prior to co-founding Oudens Ello Architecture in 2007, Matt spent ten years with Machado Silvetti in Boston where he was a Senior Associate, co-managing office operations for the 40-person firm and directing award-winning cultural projects including the Honan-Allston Branch of the Boston Public Library, winner of numerous awards, including a 2003 AIA National Honor Award for Architecture, Honor Awards from both the Boston Society of Architects and the New England Chapter of the AIA, and recipient of the prestigious Harleston Parker Medal. Other award-winning projects under his leadership include the South Boston Maritime Park for the Massachusetts Port Authority, the Silver Spring Town Square’s new civic building and veterans memorial plaza in Silver Spring, Maryland, the new Black Family Visual Arts Center at Dartmouth College, and renovation and expansion of the Chazen Museum of Art on the University of Wisconsin’s Madison campus.

Matt holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Virginia. Matt has been a registered architect since 1996, holding licenses in Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Wisconsin, and Alabama. He is a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Boston Society of Architects, and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards. Matt is MCPPO certified and is a LEED Accredited Professional. In addition he has served as a guest critic and thesis design critic at several local architecture schools and a lecturer at the Boston Architectural Center, Build Boston, and the Harvard Executive Education Program. From 2018-2022, Matt was a member of the Planning Board for the Town of Brookline, MA, where he also served as a building committee member and design advisory team member for several significant projects for the town.

Matt lives with his wife Zamira Korff and their daughter Adele in Brookline, Massachusetts, where they earned a 2008 Preservation Award from the Brookline Preservation Commission for renovation of their 1892 Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge designed home.

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