Matthew Frederick is a Registered Architect, urban designer, and the author of the bestselling 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (MIT Press, 2007). He is president of the Frederick Design Studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has been project architect and consultant for project types from single-family houses to urban master plans. He has been internationally recognized as an urban designer, with his entry in the 2006 Brickbottom Urban Design Competition earning one of twelve awards given to a field of over 200 registrants. 

Mr. Frederick has taught architecture and urban design at a number of colleges of architecture, including Wentworth Institute of Technology and Boston Architectural College.  Additionally, he has served as a design critic at the University of Utah, Illinois Institute of Technology, Drexel University, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, and Temple University. In the 1990s, he initiated the undergraduate program in architecture at Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania, where he created and taught courses in architectural design, freehand drawing, structural engineering, and construction documents, while rebuilding existing curricula in architectural technology and building construction technology.

Mr. Frederick began his writing career as architecture critic for The Harrisburg Patriot-News, the daily newspaper of Pennsylvania’s capital city. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, his first book, was released in September 2007 by MIT Press and has been a bestseller on many lists, including the Los Angeles Times and The American Booksellers Association. It continues to be the #1 seller in Architecture at Amazon.com, and its fourth printing was issued in June 2008. 101 Things has been translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Portuguese, Greek, and Spanish.

At present, Mr. Frederick is at work on several new book projects, including Copernicus Goes to Suburbia, a study of how modern biases in perception and consciousness shape patterns of building and culture. The project received guiding input from the late Jane Jacobs, celebrated author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and was a finalist in the John Lupton New Voices in Literature Awards.

Mr. Frederick co-chairs the Boston Society of Architects Focus Team on Equitable Urbanism, which promotes the building of grass roots, "Mom and Pop" urbanism.  He makes frequent speaking appearances in public, academic, and professional venues, including WGBH TV's "Greater Boston," the 2008 San Francisco Writing for Change Conference, the Boston Society of Architects Public Lecture Series, the University of Notre Dame, and the closing address of the 2007 New England Conference of the Congress for New Urbanism. 

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