2000
Interior Architecture
Matthew Hufft
Matthew Hufft traveled to China, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Matthew Hufft
University of Kansas
School of Architecture & Design
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum at Naka-ku Hiroshima, Japan, design by Kenzo Tange in 1955. Image by Wiiii - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jury
Nada Andric (Chair)
Robert Kleinschmidt
John Zukowsky
To understand how the clean, simple, serene lines of the natural world find their way toward the interior of the Asian architecture (ancient and new) and these interiors in turn make their way back to the natural world. Furthermore, to determine how both, nature and interior, appear to be composed of relatively simplistic systems of layers from afar, but up close, really are interwoven and complex sytems with order that make the whole.
I start in Tokyo and move south to Hiroshima. Then on Westward to Beijing. From there I move south again toward Hong Kong. Next it is towards Southern Vietnam and west to explore Southern Thailand. Finally, my journey ends up in Malaysia and Singapore. A ten-week journey that focused mainly on the ancient and traditional Asian architectural interiors.
Postcards sent by Matthew Hufft during his travels.
China, Thailand, and Vietnam
Japan
Malaysia and Singapore
Matthew Hufft
University of Kansas
School of Architecture & Design
Matthew Hufft
is a principal at Hufft, an architecture, interior design, and fabrication studio with offices in Kansas City, MO, and Bentonville, AR. Hufft has a bachelor's degree from the University of Kansas and a master's degree from Columbia University. He is a LEED accredited professional, NCARB certified, and licensed in Missouri, Kansas, and New York. At the age of twenty-five, his first commission The Line House was completed. Soon after, other commissions followed and Hufft was formed in 2005. Since that time, the firm has taken on over 300 architectural, fabrication, and construction projects, ranging in budget from $20,000 to $60 million. Hufft’s work has been featured in Architectural Record, Metropolitan Home, Interior Design, Esquire, and many more publications, and has won multiple national and international awards.