Matt Coffey

Matt Coffey’s 2008 Vision Fellowship award enabled him to explore responsibilities and potential within the built environment. Through the Fellowship, he studied at the Ecosa Institute, became a LEED accredited professional and had the opportunity to attend remarkable workshops. In Australia, he attended a two week intensive with Pritzker Prize winning architect Glenn Murcutt and spent a week in the jungle of Costa Rica studying the principles of biomimicry.

Matt’s sponsoring organization was South Mountain Company (SMC) and he is now an architect there. According to Matt, SMC’s approach to architecture, construction and business is based in a holistic understanding of the required balance between the natural and built environments. “Architecture is opportunity. Our future is strengthened through progressive design that embraces the social and environmental logic of our time and place. Through our work we bolster the resiliency of the island as we navigate the evolution of sustainable design.”