Matteo Poli is an architect, working since 2005 as a tenure track researcher in Landscape Architecture at the Department of Architecture & Urban Studies and teaching at the School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. Since 1997 he gained extensive and international experience as a design consultant in architecture, urban and landscape projects. From 2004 to 2007 he has been an editor for Domus and from 2008 special correspondent for Abitare, where he currently writes. He presently co-chairs the MSc in Landscape Architecture - Land Landscape Heritage and the MSc in Sustainable Architecture and Landscape Design. He is coordinating the 2019 edition of the Milan International Architectural Design Workshop, AUIC. He has been member of three FP7 European projects and took part to a H2020 consortium. He is part of three ERASMUS+ programs (Macau USJ, Hong-Kong CUHK and Kyoto University).
After working as a landscape architect at West 8 - Adriaan Geuze in 1997, he works as a team leader and consultant at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture - Rem Koolhaas between 1998 and 2008.
From 2008 he is scientific consultant of the Milan based office AOUMM, with whom he participated to several national and international projects and competitions. Among several others, he followed with AOUMM a 600.000 sqm masterplan in Bovisa, a 100-ha farm in Azerbaijan and an eco-farm in Puerto Rico. In the past years, in collaboration with AOUMM, he has been invited to the 14th Venice Biennale. With AOUMM he participated to Expo 2015 with the NGO Save the Children pavilion that was awarded and shortlisted for international prizes (Fifth LafargeHolcim Award in 2017, WAF award in 2018 and the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2019). In 2019 he won several international competitions with AOUMM: two parks and a new 250 m long pedestrian bridge in Milan San Cristoforo, the new headquarters of SanDonnino waste management company in Fidenza and a masterplan for a 400.000 sqm eco-park with luxury villas in Sardinia.
Matteo Poli has been lecturing in several European, Asian and American universities, publishing books and articles on landscape, architecture and urban design.