He has worked for several architecture offices in Germany and abroad. From 2002–05 he worked for Barkow Leibinger Architects. Since 2006, Matthias has been an assistant professor at the Technical University of Berlin (TU Berlin) and has set up his own office. He has lectured, taught, and was part of the guest design jury at various institutions, including the Harvard Graduate School of Design, University of Arts Berlin, and the Lebanese American University. Currently, he is working on his Ph.D. and was recently selected as a scholar at the German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, 2011. Matthias studied architecture at TU Berlin and as a Fulbright scholar at SCI-Arc.