Matthew Frederick is an architect, urban designer, and the author of the bestselling 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (MIT Press, 2007). He has been project architect and consultant for project types from single-family houses to urban master plans, and has been internationally recognized for his work.

Mr. Frederick currently teaches the urban design/architecture studio at Massachusetts College of Art. He has taught at a number of other colleges and has served as a design critic at the University of Utah, Illinois Institute of Technology, Drexel University, Pennsylvania College of Art and Design, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Temple University, and Wentworth Institute of Technology. In the 1990s, he initiated an undergraduate program in architecture at Harrisburg Area Community College in Pennsylvania, where he created courses in architectural design, freehand drawing, structural engineering, and construction documents, while rebuilding existing curricula in architectural technology and building construction technology. 

Mr. Frederick began his writing career as the architecture critic for The Harrisburg Patriot-News, the daily newspaper of Pennsylvania's capital city. His first book, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, has been a bestseller on many lists including The Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, Edmonton Journal, and American Booksellers Association. 101 TILIAS has been translated into twelve languages and continues to be the intermittent #1 seller in Architecture at Amazon.com. Its sixth printing was issued in August 2009, placing a total of 130,000 English copies in print.

Mr. Frederick recently completed co-authorship of four books in a new 101 Things I Learned book series, to be released by Grand Central Publishing in April 2010. The series will be initiated with titles in Business, Culinary Arts, Fashion, and Film. Mr. Frederick is at work on several other new book projects, including Copernicus Goes to Suburbia and Radical Urbanism, which advocates for a grass roots, Mom and Pop-based model of urban and economic development.

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