Matthew Allen is an architect and writer whose work focuses on architecture and computation. He has a Ph.D. from Harvard University in the history and theory of architecture. He also has a Master of Architecture degree from Harvard and degrees in Physics and the Comparative History of Ideas from the University of Washington. His writing has been published in Log, the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Perspectives on Science, Domus, Disegno, Harvard Design Magazine, and other venues. He previously worked as an architect at Preston Scott Cohen, MOS, SSD Architects, and urbanDATA.