Andy Summers
Andy Summers
- Co-Pilot, Stage 4 Architecture
- Job Title
- Co-Pilot, Stage 4 Architecture
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- UNSPECIFIED
- 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
Latest Additions
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Summers, Andy and McAulay, Scott (2020) Activism in Architecture - RIAS Quarterly, Issue 43, Autumn 2020. RIAS Quarterly (43). ISSN 2044-1851
- 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
