Architect + Founding Principal
matt@insitustudio.us

Matthew Henning Griffith, FAIA, earned a BS in Mathematics from Davidson College and a MArch from the NCSU College of Design, where he concentrated in Urban Design and received numerous awards, including the Kamphoefner Fellowship and the AIA School Medal. His thesis project - a community center for Camden, New Jersey - received a 2004 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Award.

Before founding in situ studio in 2010, Matt served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Arkansas and worked in the offices of Marlon Blackwell Architect and Frank Harmon Architect. He currently serves as Professor in Practice at the NCSU School of Architecture, a position he has held since 2008. In 2021, Matt co-founded the Real Matter Workshop, a two-week design charrette for students and young professional from across North America that is paired with a free public lectures by some of the world’s most innovative design practices as a means to spark critical dialogue about the built environment in Raleigh and across the American South.

Since 2010, Matt and his colleagues at in situ studio have received nearly 100 local, state, and regional AIA design awards. In 2012, the studio was recognized by Residential Architect magazine as one of 15 Young Firms to Watch, and their work is now widely published online and in print. Matt regularly serves on professional awards juries, lectures throughout the country, and is a frequent visiting critic at schools of architecture. He was on the 2019 AIA National Small Projects Awards Jury and was Chair of the 2020 AIA SAR Awards Committee. In 2021, Matt was named the 20th recipient of the AIA NC Kamphoefner Prize. He was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2024.

Matt’s work in the office, academic studios, and broader community supports a bold perspective - that buildings can be instruments to measure the beauty of a place and dignify human pursuit.

Matt lives with his wife, the Reverend Ashley Griffith, just east of downtown Raleigh. Their three adult children are out in the world doing wonderful things.