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Berkeley
CA 94710
(510) 255-4520
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Berkeley
CA 94710
(510) 255-4520
admin@strombergarchitecture.com
Matthew is a licensed architect in California and a certified LEED Accredited Professional.
Matthew Stromberg’s range of experience includes institutional, commercial, and residential architectural projects. Matthew received a graduate degree in cultural anthropology from Columbia University in 1994, a field of inquiry that both primed his interest in universal patterns of human behavior and established a theoretical underpinning to his interest in bodily presence in space and time. For five years, Matthew performed internationally with the MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient and daredevil choreographer Elizabeth Streb in her professional dance company Streb, Ringside, Inc. based out of New York City. Matthew returned to his native Berkeley for a Master’s in Architecture from the University of California, which he completed in 2003. Before establishing Stromberg Architecture, Matthew worked five years with the award winning firm Fernau & Hartman in Berkeley where he worked on many projects ranging from master planning of a 3100 acre conservation ranch in Montana to project managing numerous high-end residential projects.
As the principal architect at Stromberg Architecture, Matthew oversees all aspects of the design practice and assists the project team on each project from early concept through to project completion. Projects ranging from single family residential to large multi-million dollar institutional projects are all treated with equal care and attention to detail. Matthew enjoys traveling with his family, open water swimming in the SF Bay, and volunteering as a skipper for SF Baykeeper. Matthew is a founding board member of OGAP – a non-profit organization that deploys genomic labs on low cost sailing vessels to produce a global genomic atlas of marine species and he serves on the Architectural Review Committee for a 425 member residential development project in Baja Sur, Mexico.
Aakash Dave is an architect and urban designer from India. He completed his master’s degree at Harvard Graduate School of Design after earning his bachelor’s degree from IPSA, Rajkot. Following over four years of professional experience at SEALAB in Ahmedabad, he has also held teaching positions in India and served as an instructor for Design Discovery at Harvard GSD. Aakash values simplicity and a deep engagement with place and context, guided by careful observation before ideas take shape. Drawing is a big part of how he thinks and remembers, and he’s interested in how architecture shapes memory, perception, and everyday experience.