Andrew Kudless is an artist, designer, and educator based in Houston, Texas. Founded in 2004, his firm Matsys has pieces in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the FRAC Centre in Orleans, France. His work on Confluence Park has won a number of awards including a 2019 AIA National Honor Award. In 2019, he became the first American designer to contribute to Louis Vuitton’s Objets Nomades collection. Andrew is a Professor of Architecture at the University of Houston where he holds the Bill Kendall Memorial Endowed Professorship and also serves as the Director of the Construction Robotics and Fabrication Technologies (CRAFT) Lab.