Tairua, Coromandel, New Zealand.
Residential New Build.
Completed 2022.
Tairua, Coromandel, New Zealand.
Residential New Build.
Completed 2020.
Tairua, Coromandel, New Zealand.
Residential New Build.
Under Construction 2025.
Fantail Terrace, Coromandel, NZ.
Residential New Build.
Completed 2023.
Mt Paku, Coromandel, NZ.
Small Residential New Build.
Design Completed 2022.
Fantail Terrace, Tairua, Coromandel, NZ.
Residential New Build.
Design Completed 2022.
Motuhoa Road, Coromandel, NZ.
Residential New Build.
Design Completed 2024.
Pakiri, Mangawhai, NZ.
Residential New Build.
Design Completed 2019.
Ponsonby, Auckland, NZ.
Residential Renovation.
Completed 2017.
Matt, the founder of Matt Deeb Architecture and a Certified builder, delivers extraordinary residential projects from New Zealand.
Each unique design responds to the environment with a sense of time and place whilst embodying raw and honest materials that become special over time.
Discover how our design philosophy blends artful simplicity, elegant restraint, and enduring materials to create homes that harmonize with their surroundings.
Director Matt Deeb holds a Master’s in Architecture and is also a Certified Builder - an uncommon dual qualification that informs every stage of his work.
This convergence of knowledge ensures each project is conceived with an intimate understanding of how it will be built.
This rare continuity eliminates the typical disjunction between designer and builder, allowing the architecture to be realised with exactness and authenticity.
At the heart of MDA’s philosophy lies refinement through restraint.
Each home is guided by principles of simplicity, proportion, and authenticity - responding to context, orientation, and climate.
Natural materials are favoured for their inherent honesty: timber that softens with time, stone that anchors a home to its site, concrete that captures the permanence of form.
The ambition is to create architecture that belongs.
Every project is led personally by Matt Deeb.
He takes on only a small number of commissions each year, allowing an exceptional level of involvement and continuity.
There are no handovers to junior designers - the same mind that conceives the project carries it through documentation, detailing, and site observation.
This ensures a singular vision and an unwavering standard of quality - a process defined by clarity, intimacy, and precision.
Matt Deeb Architecture offers a comprehensive, end-to-end architectural service - from feasibility and concept design through developed and detailed design, resource and building consents, interior architecture, project management, and construction oversight.
Working across Aotearoa, New Zealand, the practice collaborates with both local and international clients and builders.
Every project benefits from Matt’s dual lens as designer and builder - a synthesis that ensures design intent, material performance, and construction excellence remain inseparable.
Before a proposal can be prepared, it’s essential to understand the project — the site, ambitions, and the level of design involvement required.
This begins with an initial design consultation, a 90-minute on-site meeting in which Matt studies the property and discusses your aspirations, lifestyle, and aesthetic direction. During the session, he shares early design insights and ideas while assessing scope and compatibility.
The consultation fee is $250, and as only a limited number are offered each year, bookings are typically made several weeks in advance.
For those wishing to experience MDA’s work firsthand, Matt also offers a private architectural tour of five completed Coromandel homes - a opportunity to see his design philosophy realised in built form.
It is important that clients understand the costs of architectural services early in the relationship.
Once the scope and complexity are defined, Matt Deeb Architecture provides a detailed fee proposal outlining stages, services, and deliverables.
Fees are tailored to each commission and may be based on time charges, a fixed lump sum, a percentage of construction cost, or a combination thereof - always aligned with the project’s scale and the depth of involvement required.
This transparent approach ensures clarity and confidence from the outset.
"We're so happy we chose to work with Matt on our home. His attention to detail and care is exceptional.
His background in building helps to bridge the gap between builder, architect, and homeowner, allowing for a seamless process and great problem solving/troubleshooting.
Can't recommend him highly enough!"
- Matt Turner
"Matt is an absolute pleasure to work with. Right from the outset he inspired confidence with his engaging and solution-oriented attitude and his excellent communication. Matt is highly organised, methodical and hardworking and he has brought to our project an elegance and clarity of design and an impressive commitment and attention to detail. This in conjunction with his in-depth knowledge of building and construction has made the often challenging process of designing a new home feel straightforward and uncomplicated. We threw significant curveballs / hurdles Matt's way and without exception he has handled these with total professionalism and incredible patience.
Put simply, we cannot say enough good things about Matt and we give him our highest recommendation."
- Deborah Hart
"We are currently in the design stage of our project with Matt and we are very happy with what he has come up with for our future house. The design is what we asked for, made into a very attractive, stylish home. We can't wait to continue and bring it from paper into a reality."
- Carissa Yeoman
"MDA renovated our Ponsonby villa and added a new pool area. We found his attention to detail, design skills and level of quality exceptional. We strongly recommend Matt both as an architect and as a builder."
- Bridget McCracken
