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Andy Summers

  • Co-Pilot, Stage 4 Architecture
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Job Title
Co-Pilot, Stage 4 Architecture
Email
a.summers@gsa.ac.uk
Country
Scotland

Biography

Andy Summers (he/him)(b. Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Glasgow-based architect, educator, curator, and public programmer specialising in architecture and the built environment. He is interested in developing and contributing to a pluralised, progressive culture of architecture which seeks to support a just common good. His work questions and explores the conditions within which architectural cultures emerge, often challenging existing structures and cultural norms.

Andy is representing Scotland at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia 2023 as co-curator of A Fragile Correspondence with colleagues from the Architecture Fringe, -ism, and /other.

Andy is a co-founder and co-director of the Architecture Fringe, a self-initiated non-profit organisation which explores architecture and its impact within its social, political, and cultural contexts.

He is currently the co-pilot for Stage 4 Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art, a design tutor at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at the University of Edinburgh, and a unit tutor at the University of Strathclyde.

A fully-qualified architect, Andy studied within the collaborative multi-disciplinary atmosphere of Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland before taking his diploma at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. He completed his professional studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. During a decade in London he worked for several high-profile architects including Terry Pawson and Trevor Horne. Between 2008-2013 Andy worked for Zaha Hadid Architects with project work including the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad, Iraq and the North Souks Department Store in Beirut, Lebanon.

Andy is also a photographer working under his middle names of Robb Mcrae. His work focusses on portraiture and landscape photography and has been published in books and magazines as well as exhibited at the Architecture Fringe and London Festival of Architecture.

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  1. Summers, Andy, McGuire, Neil, Nolan, Aoife, McEwan, Amy, Enberg, Kristina, Riacchi, Alissar, Choudhury, Alyesha, Jonsson, Carl and Pinder-Hussein, Mia (2024) A Fragile Correspondence - Scotland + Venice at the V&A Dundee. V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee DD1 4EZ, 15 November 2024 - 25 May 2025
  2. Summers, Andy and Choudhury, Alyesha (2023) Expanding the Lexicon: Lessons from the Landscape - Scotland + Venice at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Docks Cantieri Cucchini, S. Pietro di Castello, 40, Venice 30122, 25 November 2023
  3. Summers, Andy and Choudhury, Alyesha (2023) Wanderlands: Earth, Story, Time - Australia, Ireland, Scotland at La Biennale di Venezia. Docks Cantieri Cucchini, S. Pietro di Castello, 40, Venice 30122, 24 November 2023
  4. Summers, Andy, Choudhury, Alyesha and McGuire, Neil (2023) Found in Translation: Architecture, Land, Landscape, Language - A Fragile Correspondence - Scotland + Venice at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Docks Cantieri Cucchini, S. Pietro di Castello, 40, Venice 30122, 14 Oct 2023
  5. Thomson, Amanda, Summers, Andy, McGuire, Neil, Architecture Fringe, Architecture Fringe, -ism Magazine, -ism Magazine and /other, /other (2023) Boundary Layers/ Boundary Layers (companion piece) in A Fragile Correspondence.
  6. Summers, Andy, McGuire, Neil, Nolan, Aoife, McEwan, Amy, Enberg, Kristina, Riacchi, Alissar, Choudhury, Alyesha, Jonsson, Carl and Pinder-Hussein, Mia (2023) A Fragile Correspondence - Scotland + Venice at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2023. Docks Cantieri Cucchini, S. Pietro di Castello, 40, Venice 30122, 19 May 2023 - 24 November 2023
  7. Summers, Andy, ed. (2022) (Un)Learning Through Architecture, a Compendium on: Land & Community, Whiteness & Race, Education in Architecture, New Spatial Realities, (Un)Learning Practice, New Producers. Architecture Fringe CIC, Glasgow, Scotland. ISBN 978-1-3999-3186-1
  8. Li, Katherine and Summers, Andy (2022) Introduction: (Un)Learning Education in Architecture. In: (Un)Learning Through Architecture, a Compendium on: Land & Community, Whiteness & Race, Education in Architecture, New Spatial Realities, (Un)Learning Practice, New Producers. The Architecture Fringe CIC 2021, Glasgow, UK, pp. 8-11. ISBN 978-1-3999-3186-1
  9. Summers, Andy and McAulay, Scott (2020) Activism in Architecture - RIAS Quarterly, Issue 43, Autumn 2020. RIAS Quarterly (43). ISSN 2044-1851
  10. Summers, Andy and Barber, Jude (2019) Architecture & Design. In: Scotland the Brave? Twenty Years of Change and the Future of the Nation. Luath Press Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland. ISBN 9781913025021