Matthew Blunderfield

Diagram of the process of Crystallisation (love) by the French writer Stendhal


I am an architectural editor and cultural producer with a background in architectural practice. My work focuses on how contemporary architecture is discussed, documented, and understood in public, through conversation, research, and public programmes.

I am the creator and host of Scaffold, an ongoing editorial project centred on long-form conversations with architects and cultural practitioners. Founded independently in 2018, Scaffold became the flagship podcast of The Architecture Foundation in 2021, and is now widely recognised as a leading platform for in-depth architectural discourse. The podcast functions as a record of architectural thinking that sits outside more immediate or promotional forms of media.

Alongside my editorial work, I produce public programmes and projects, and teach architecture at postgraduate level. At the Royal College of Art, I currently lead a collective housing design studio that explores questions of pleasure and comfort in the context of social and environmental crisis. I have previously taught at the University of Cambridge and Kingston School of Art.

My photography has been published in The Architects’ Journal, The Architectural Review, and Superposition Magazine, and featured in London Arboretum and the At Home in London series, co-published by the Architecture Foundation and MACK. I trained in architecture and English literature in Canada and the UK, and have practised as an architect in London with Waugh Thistleton, David Kohn, and Henley Halebrown. I live in Camden.


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m.blndrfld at gmail.com
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