Factory 500 members: Join Mattress Factory for an exclusive viewing of a twenty year retrospective of Architect Matthew Schlueb's work exhibited within the first floor studio space of artist William Earl Kofmehl, III. We will be hearing from Schlueb himself, along with Kofmehl. Following the exhibition tour, guests are invited take a 30 minute drive for an architecture tour of Schlueb's fascinatingly designed private home in Pittsburgh, PA. His home, called Villa Vuoto, has gained quite a bit of attention within the architectural community, receiving both praise and awards locally, nationally and internationally. Built without right angles, rooms of Villa Vuoto were rounded, walls sloped in and out, heightening sensibilities to subtleties only revealed by a careful handling of soft, curvilinear, textural form.

“It seems that round space suits the human body and soul better, nearly the same way a drawing expresses an idea more intuitively than words.”
– Matthew Schlueb

We will wrap up with food, drink, and mingling at Schlueb's home.

Retrospective Location (1:00 PM - 2:00 PM):

Kofmehl Studios

728 North Negley Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15206

[30 minute drive to Schlueb's home]

Architectural Tour Location (2:30 PM - 3:30 PM):

Home of Architect Matthew Schlueb

1604 Settlers Grove Lane, Wexford, PA 15090

**NOTE: Parking will be at the bottom of a hilly gravel driveway which will require us to walk up to the home.***

About Matthew Schlueb

Matthew Schlueb studied architecture at Ohio State University, followed by graduate thesis work at Pratt Institute. He is a registered architect with NCARB certification enabling him to practice throughout North America. He owns and operates a sole-proprietorship private practice, maintaining six to eight active projects.

Matthew has over two decades of architectural experience, specializing in residential design and construction, located between New York and Los Angeles. His architectural designs have been awarded by juried competitions at both local and national levels, receiving praise in print and television media internationally. SCHLUEB architecture was founded by Matthew Schlueb in the Spring of 2000. Structured as a small boutique practice, every call, email, text is handled by him personally.

After moving from Los Angeles, Julianne & Matthew Schlueb wanted to create a home to peak the curiosity of their two sons, open their eyes and exploring minds to new experiences, modeled on Julianne’s Italian ancestry and Matthew’s German propensity for creative thinking.

About William Kofmehl III

William Earl Kofmehl, III, a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania native and sculptor, graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts preceding a Fifth Year Scholarship to study Civil Engineering. Kofmehl then attended Yale University, obtaining a Master of Fine Arts Degree.

Immediately following graduation from Yale’s MFA program studying sculpture, Kofmehl was represented by Lombard-Freid Gallery in New York City. Kofmehl participated in Contemporary Visual Art talks and exhibitions in Hong Kong, Brittany, France, Winterthur, Switzerland, Miami, New York, Chicago, Monteverde, Costa Rica and London. William Kofmehl is currently represented by Ragioni Tecniche in Venice, Italy where he recently had a solo exhibition of new works called “The Feral In-Between,”

Kofmehl is a multidisciplinary artist who integrates explorations of performance, bronze casting, installation art, black and white photography, and other media in his work. He is an artist as phenomenologist, sculptor as philosopher, and performer as comedian. Kofmehl looks at the intersections between factual information, historical events and fictitious stories while commenting on Social Roles and Divisions of Labor.

Over the past two decades, Kofmehl has held adjunct Professorial appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, France, University of Pittsburgh, Robert Morris University and Geneva College.