Matthias Hollwich, SBA, is a registered European Architect, and cofounder and principal of HWKN and cofounder of Architizer.  He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he has been the creator of an international conference on aging and architecture: New Aging, held in the fall of 2010 at UPENN.

HWKN is an architecture and design office whose projects span the worlds of architecture, branding and development and focus on global cultural projects, brand-enhancing interventions and architecture for our aging society.