Matt Perotto (MLA 2015) is a landscape architect, urban designer, educator, and design researcher whose work brings contemporary urbanism, city-building, and computation together to explore new ways of imagining and designing cities. He is a Principal Urban Designer and Landscape Architect at Urban Strategies Inc. (USI), where he works across landscape, public realm, urban design, and environmental systems. Across practice and academia, his work advances an integrated urbanism that positions landscape and landscape systems as an organizing framework for cities and urban regions.

Matt’s interests in computation, parametric design, environmental analysis, and emerging technologies are closely tied to this design agenda. He explores how computational methods can integrate environmental performance and complex spatial information into fluid, iterative design processes, allowing ideas to be rapidly developed, visualized, evaluated, and refined within experiential digital environments. His work integrates analog and digital tools as extensions of critical thinking and design exploration.

Matt has taught in the Master of Landscape Architecture program at the University of Toronto's John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design since 2019. His teaching spans visual communication, computation, parametric and procedural design methods, integrated urbanism, and graduate thesis advising. He is also active in the OALA and ASLA and works to connect students with broader disciplinary conversations and opportunities beyond the classroom.

Prior to joining USI, Matt was a Senior Associate at Janet Rosenberg & Studio, where he led the Studio Research Lab and advanced research in sustainability, environmental performance, and computational design. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly a decade at Hargreaves Jones.

Matt holds a Master of Landscape Architecture with academic honours from U of T and a Bachelor of Environmental Studies in Planning with a specialization in Urban Design from the University of Waterloo.