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Mathieu Wauters

Living systems, held inside exact architecture.

Architectural designer at Peter Marino Architect, New York, 2012 to 2013. Now ships AI products in code. Dual Belgian-American citizen. Los Angeles, open to San Francisco.

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AuthorMathieu Wauters
OfficePeter Marino Architect, NY
StudioLos Angeles, open to SF
CitizenshipBelgian-American

Peter Marino Architect

Architectural Designer, New York, January 2012 to September 2013. Daily practice in material, light, and proportion inside a luxury architecture office. The 2011 architecture book is the drawing set that precedes that year.

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Built in code

Public sites I designed and engineered. Products ship as interfaces, not decks.

empathylabs.aiThis sheet. Empathy Labs studio site.
holistica.aiPublic product site, built in code.justiceos.aiPublic product site, built in code.
Visual constitution
RoleMaterialSpecRule
FieldBone paper#F3F0E8The sheet. Negative space is structure.
InkGraphite#20241FDeterministic type. Never image-generated words.
VoidForest ink#10251CDarkness is spatial material, not a tech theme.
LivingMoss#536B48Architecture hosts life. Greenery is never pasted on.
LightOne sourceupper leftIllumination directs attention instead of filling space.

Sixty-four reference images, reduced to palette, light, material, type, motion, and a pass/fail list. Personal preference is labeled as such. A rule is only a rule if another person could fail it. That is the first draft of measurable taste.

Empathy Factory

501(c)(3). Chief Empathy Officer, May 2022 to present. A nonprofit for putting transformative tools in reach of people who usually do not get them.