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Mathew Ford
Associate Professor; Architecture, School of Architecture & Design
Associate Professor; , School of Architecture & Design
Industry Credentials: R.A.
Education Credentials: M.Arch.
Expertise: Structural Design, Architecture, Offsite and Modular Construction, Standards Development, Building Construction Technology, Integrated Project Delivery, Philosophy of Technology in the Built Environment
Joined New York Tech: 2011
Mathew Ford is a licensed architect and Managing Director of the Center for Offsite Construction (CfOC) at the School of Architecture and Design, where he leads efforts to advance a configure-to-order marketplace for offsite construction through interface standards, accreditation infrastructure, and curriculum development. He is a co-founder of the Accreditation Board for Offsite Construction Education (ABOCE), established in partnership with the Modular Building Institute, and serves on the MBI Research and Development Council and the Advanced Building Construction Collaborative. Ford is lead author of the CfOC Consensus Procedures, approved by ANSI in February 2025, and of the Modular 2.0 framework. He is also co-developing a proposed model curriculum for a program in Offsite Design and Delivery.
As a professor, Ford teaches and coordinates the structures sequence within the School of Architecture and Design, alongside courses in building construction technology and integrated design studios. He organized and moderated the Future of Design and Delivery Symposium at New York Tech in 2025, and has spoken and moderated at national industry events including Advancing Prefabrication, the Industrialized Housing Summit, and Builtworlds’ Buildings Conference. His earlier research examined the collaborative nature of structures and architecture and the work, writing, and pedagogy of Peter Eisenman; with Jeffrey Kipnis, he curated the exhibition “By Other Means” at the Palazzo Bembo during the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. He represents New York Tech in the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
He earned his Master of Architecture degree at Yale School of Architecture in 2005, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, cum laude, with a minor in Philosophy, at the Ohio State University in 2002. He is a registered architect in New York.
2025–present:
- MBI Research and Development Council
- CfOC–MBI Accreditation Task Force
2024–present:
- Managing Director, Center for Offsite Construction, NYIT School of Architecture and Design
- Advanced Building Construction (ABC) Collaborative
2022–2024:
- Development Feasibility and Predevelopment support, Church of the Mediator (Board member and grant administrator)
- Trinity Wall Street’s Mission Real Estate Development program, awarded $65,000 (2023) and $150,000 (2024) for surveys, engineering, architectural, and community engagement consultants
2004–present (project work spanning residential, institutional, and cultural commissions in New York and internationally):
- Independent Architect and Structural Consultant (2013–present)
- DXA Studio Architects (2012–2013)
- KSQ Architects (2009–2012)
- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (2008–2009)
- Eisenman Architects (2008–2005)
- Lead Author, “Center for Offsite Construction Consensus Procedures,” ANSI approved February 11, 2025.
- Principal Author, “Modular 2.0,” Center for Offsite Construction, NYIT School of Architecture and Design, Fall 2024.
- Lead Author, “MBI–CfOC Accreditation Task Force Report,” 2025.
- Plenary Panel Speaker, “Exploring the Benefits of an Organized Marketplace,” with Ryan Colker, Amy Marks, and Jason Van Nest, Advancing Prefabrication 2025, Phoenix, AZ.
- Track Chair, “Pre-Planning, Design & Preconstruction,” Advancing Prefabrication 2025, Phoenix, AZ.
- Panelist, “The Role of Academia in Preparing the Designers of Tomorrow,” Builtworlds’ Buildings Conference, New York, NY, 2025.
- Panel Moderator, 2025 Industrialized Housing Summit, Austin, TX.
- Organizer and Moderator, Future of Design and Delivery Symposium, NYIT, New York, NY, 2025.
- “Simulating Paradoxes,” co-author with Jason Van Nest, Proceedings of the ACSA Fall Conference, ACSA Press, 2016.
- “By Other Means: Notes, Projects, and Ephemera from the Miscellany of Peter Eisenman,” Mathew Ford, editor, Venice GAA Foundation, 2016.
- ARCH 211 Statics and Strength of Materials
- ARCH 221 Building Construction I
- ARCH 222 Building Construction II
- ARCH 291 Philosophy of Technology in the Built Environment
- ARCH 310 Structural Design
- ARCH 311 Structural Steel Design
- ARCH 312 Reinforced Concrete Design
- ARCH 327 Construction Documents
- ARCH 383 Externship in Architecture
- ARCH 402 Architectural Design VI Studio
- ARCH 411 Advanced Structures I
- ARCH 423 Project Integration Studio
- ARCH 611 Introduction to Structures and Technology
- ARCH 621 Building Systems I