Brandon Clifford
Princeton University, School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ
Bachelor of Science in Architecture 2006
Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture, Atlanta, GA
Ecole D’Architecture La Villette, Paris, France — 2005 Howard E. LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow 2011–2012 The Ohio State University, Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus, OH Founder 2010 — Present The Malleablist Movement Editor 2010 — 2011 Pidgin Magazine Assistant Instructor Introduction to Design 2011 Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ Assistant Instructor Computational Design 2010 Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ Guest Lecturer Digital Constructs 2007 — 2009 Rhode Island School of Design Seminar Instructor Computational Design 2006 Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
Researcher and Co-Author A Change of State 2005 — 2006
Georgia Institute of Technology, College of Architecture
Principal 2008 — Present
Matter Design
Project Manager 2006 — 2009
Office dA
Artist Assistant 2004 — 2005
Atilier Damien Valero
Brandon Clifford received his Master of Architecture from Princeton University in 2011 and his Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2006. During this time he also attended L’Ecole D’Architecture La Villette. From 2006 – 2009 he worked as project manager at Office dA in both Boston and New York where his contributions varied in scale and program — silverware, installations, restaurants, a professional soccer stadium, and numerous urban planning studies. Brandon also served as editor of Pidgin Magazine from 2009–2011, the 2011-12 LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture, and the founder of The Malleablist Movement in architecture.
In 2008 Brandon founded matter design with Wes McGee as a way of rarefying the overlaps between their respective backgrounds. This relatively experimental dialog was solidified when Matter Design was selected as a finalist in the international West Cork Arts Center competition. Consistent with their backgrounds, Matter Design is committed to experimentation and research at a variety of scales.
Brandon focuses on the realization of digital manufacturing through materials, means and methods of production, as well as the process and representation of direct drawing to better influence the built environment (otherwise known as Architecture). By way of this introduction, it is important to note that Brandon’s focus is neither on the side of the digital or the physical, but rather in response to both. Brandon’s research and work consistently develops reciprocity between drawing and construction.