Brandon Clifford

Bran­don Clifford

Mas­ter of Archi­tec­ture 2009 — Present
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
Sem­i­nar Instruc­tor 2006
Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, Col­lege of Archi­tec­ture
Researcher and Co-Author 2005 — 2006
Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy, Col­lege of Archi­tec­ture
Thomas W. Ven­tulette III Dis­tin­guished Chair in Archi­tec­tural Design
Prin­ci­pal 2008 — Present
Mat­ter Design
Project Man­ager 2006 — 2009
Office dA
Artist Assis­tant 2004 — 2005
Atilier Damien Valero

Bran­don Clif­ford received a 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 while appren­tic­ing under Damien Valero.  Bran­don returned to Atlanta as a researcher in dig­i­tal man­u­fac­tur­ing com­plet­ing the instal­la­tion enti­tled ‘A Change of State’ in 2006.  From 2006 – 2009 he worked for 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.

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.

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