Andrew Matthews

  • The Abode development by Proctor & Matthews drew as far as possible on local vernacular styles and materials.
    Building Study

    Mix and match

    2006-06-30T00:00:00

    Proctor & Matthews’ Abode housing in Essex was noted for its density and vernacular references. Three years on, director Andrew Matthews returns

  • Features

    Pull up a chair to the planning party

    2004-06-18T00:00:00

    When we completed our own office fit-out two years ago we thought we had made generous provision for the growing demands of the new planning game. Not so. Fourteen chairs and a very large table is not enough, as we learnt at a recent planning workshop.

  • Features

    Piecing the jigsaw to stand the test of time

    2004-05-07T00:00:00

    We are second-generation architects, Stephen Proctor and I, and our fathers often remind us that we are not the first to try to crack the prefab nut. Steel, timber and concrete have all been used by the profession in pursuit of the Holy Grail; inexpensive and quickly built quality ...