Bran­don Clif­ford is cur­rently the Bel­luschi Lec­turer at the Mass­a­chu­setts Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy as well as Prin­ci­pal at Mat­ter Design. Bran­don received his Mas­ter of Archi­tec­ture from Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity in 2011 and his Bach­e­lor of Sci­ence in Archi­tec­ture from the Geor­gia Insti­tute of Tech­nol­ogy in 2006. From 2006–09 he worked as project man­ager at Office dA in both Boston and New York. Bran­don also served as edi­tor of Pid­gin Mag­a­zine from 2009–11, the 2011-12 LeFevre Fel­low at OSU Knowl­ton School of Archi­tec­ture, and the founder of the Mal­leab­list Move­ment in architecture. In 2011 Bran­don was awarded the pres­ti­gious SOM Prize in archi­tec­ture and urban plan­ning.