KVA matx
Architecture and PlanningMassachusetts, United States11-50 Employees
KVA matx is an architecture and planning practice based in Boston, Massachusetts. Described as an alternative professional practice, it pursues new possibilities for contemporary public architecture and urbanism. The firm collaborates with artists, manufacturers, educators, community leaders, and public agencies to explore how infrastructure elements can be integrated with architecture to articulate connections that link people, activities, and spaces in contemporary American culture. The practice operates within the architecture and planning field, focusing on how infrastructure can inform public design. In March 2026, Harvard University's Tozzer Anthropology Building, designed by Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd. (KVA), won the People's Choice Award.