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Jake Matatyaou

Lecturer

Jake Matatyaou is a designer, writer, and educator. Matatyaou is a founding partner of JuneJuly, a design consultancy based in Los Angeles, CA, and Seattle, WA. Established by Matatyaou and Kyle Hovenkotter in 2014, JuneJuly is committed to expanding architecture to more than the design of buildings. Using architecture as a visceral mode of communication, JuneJuly explores the impact of globalization and networked technology on the spaces, places, and people of contemporary cities. Matatyaou’s work draws from interaction design, experience design, film, and music, to offer a renewed interest in the human body and its situation in the world. Before joining UCLA, Matatyaou was the Liberal Arts Coordinator and Design Studio Faculty at SCI-Arc.

Related Links
  • JuneJuly
  • Sites of Entanglement
  • “Neither Seen, Nor Heard,” Avery Shorts
  • “Shared Sounds,” ​Offramp 14: Crowds
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    Education
    M.Arch., Columbia University
    Ph.D. in Political Science, Northwestern University
    B.A. in Economics and Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
    A proposal for the NYC DOT's Asphalt Art Activation project in the Bronx, 1KM is a colorful 1000 meter spiral that encourages students of PS 69 and its neighboring community to go for a stroll.
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    An installation of an orange carpet corridor that collapses as it is traversed, shows the lower half of a man standing immersed in the architecture.
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    Image of Radio Room in Highbridge Media Lab, with modular superfurniture that enables students and teachers to rapidly reconfigure their space.
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    Rendering of a large black Sound Bar elevated above people walking through a courtyard with pools in various levels in Rockefeller Center.
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    Rendering of Hot Air, an Inflatable Data Center that is reminiscent of a bounce house.
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    An image of an installation in the A+D Museum group that shows a drawing of a door, and another of a door frame, that were solicited independent of one another on Craigslist in exchange for $50 per drawing.
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    1. 1KM, Bronx, NY
    2. Headspace, Los Angeles, California
    3. Radio Room, Highbridge Media Lab, Bronx, NY
    4. Sound Bar, Rockefeller Center, NY
    5. Hot Air, Inflatable Data Center, Seattle, WA
    6. No Experience Necessary, Los Angeles, CA
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