Matthew Ryan Lowe, LEED ®AP BD+C

Director of Design, DLA Architects

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As a child, Matt discovered a passion for imagining and visualizing the world around him. In 2002, he graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with his M. Arch Thesis on “Music as a Metaphor for an Architectural Language.” Over the past fifteen years, Matt has infused his passion to shape and transform learning environments with DLA Architects where he serves as Director of Design. Many of his projects have gained national recognition. At the Association for Learning Environments’ 2018 LearningScapes Conference, one such project, Kennedy Elementary School in Schiller Park, Illinois, was selected as a featured tour site.

Lowe believes in his firm’s philosophy that “form follows learning” and that a successful design must truly reflect, support and inspire the needs and the vision of the client. He is extremely conscientious as to how people connect to their surroundings and how architecture effects one physiologically and psychologically. When Matt is not involved in the design process, he finds peace at the piano and with his family. He resides in the Chicago suburbs with his wife Charmaine and their four children, all of whom provide him with his greatest inspiration when designing learning environments for tomorrow.