Matthew Littell, LEED AP, Principal
littell (at) utiledesign.com
Matthew Littell was born and raised in Manhattan. After graduating from Columbia College in 1989, he remained in New York, designing and fabricating props for movies and advertising. He ran his own furniture and cabinetry shop in Brooklyn until he moved to Boston in 1993 to attend the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Littell graduated from the GSD in 1997 with a Masters in Architecture, winning both the Clifford Wong Prize for the “best studio or thesis project that has as its primary focus multi-family housing,” and the James Templeton Kelley Award for the “best final design project submitted by a candidate for a professional degree in architecture.”
Upon graduation, Littell worked for Schwartz/Silver Architects in Boston, doing design on various institutional projects such as the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland Maine, and renovations to the Boston Athenaeum. He joined Machado and Silvetti Associates in 1999, where he managed several master plans, including the Dewey Square Master Plan in Boston and the Clarke Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts. In 2001, Littell moved to New York to manage the firm’s participation in a multi-firm master plan for FSM, a consortium of developers/financiers who had purchased the rights to develop three city blocks on Manhattan’s east side. Upon completion of the project, he continued to work on his own in New York on smaller scaled residential projects.
In January 2003, Littell returned to Boston to join Utile, Inc. as a principal. Here he has focused primarily on residential development and early- phase project planning. He has been actively involved in manufactured housing, most recently moderating a panel on the subject at Build Boston 2005. Littell is a LEED accredited professional.