Matt Eshleman


Matt Eshleman
Senior Urban and Architectural Designer
Matt is an architectural and urban designer who has led international projects ranging from high-density masterplans to intimate materials-based built architecture. Living in China for ten years while working for one of the country’s leading urban think tanks gave Matt a unique perspective on the country’s rapid, dynamic development through first hand experience on many large-scale, future-oriented projects. He continues to draw on this experience now, as many of North America’s most pressing problems require a similar large-scale and future-oriented vision.
Recently Matt has led design on an expansive transit-oriented study of the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. As part of this study, he has overseen data collection and spatial analysis across the region and played an integral role in building a site evaluation process that has grown to span tens of millions of cells of data. His systems design and coordination, including regularly writing and deploying custom formulas and code, has allowed for this database to be continually edited and updated in parallel and in real time by a large team of planners and consultants.
Prior to joining SvN, Matt was a lead designer and project director on several prominent and international award-winning projects, such as “New Peak”, Shenzhen’s contribution to the 2016 London Design Biennale, and the Shenshan Master Plan with Mayslits Kassif and One Architects, a 20 km2 urban and coastal resiliency development plan (International Competition, 2nd Prize). Matt was also a lead designer during the concept phase of the recently completed China Merchants Museum (finalist for THE PLAN AWARD 2024).