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Matthew Herbert and Lucinda Mason founded Herbert + Mason in 2005. Both Matthew and Lucinda are honours graduates from RMIT, and studied Architecture also in Japan and Denmark under Carsten Thau, Kjeld Vindum and Anders Munk. They have received several commendations and awards for their work and studies, this year winning the Retail Interior Design Award for the Ksubi flagship store and were shortlisted for the Claude Maus Flagship store.
Despite being a young practise, they have grown consistently in scale and reputation due to their approach and extensive experience in projects of varying scales and program, from urban design to product design both here and overseas.
Their work has been published both here and overseas including Monument, Frame, Monster Mag, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue and Vogue living and featured in publications from Spain, Korea, Japan and Germany. Currently the practice has several new projects in Australia and will be heading to Japan, New York and London later this year for commercial, hospitality and residential projects.
Lucinda currently works at NWHB on the Melbourne Convention Centre, one of the largest Public Private Partnerships in Australia, and lectures in the fields of design and communications at RMIT University.
Matthew Herbert
BArch(hons 1st class) RMIT
Registered Architect, Victoria
Member of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects
Member of Design Institute of Australia.
Matthew has had worked predominantly as a project and design architect for some of Australia’s most significant cultural and civic buildings including Federation Square and the innovative and award-winning Australian Wildlife Centre at Healesville Sanctuary. Matthew also worked in Denmark on several residential and commercial projects..Matthew has studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan in the fields of education, urban design, and master planning under Jun Aoki, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow), and was awarded both the RAIA Graduate Prize and Anne Butler medal for his thesis project. Matthew lectures and teaches in the fields of design, computing and communications at RMIT University.
