Andrew Scott is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and principal of Andrew Scott Architecture in Boston, USA.
He is coordinator of a real demonstration project for Sustainable Urban Housing in China, which develops a collaboration and integration of design strategies with technical knowledge and computer simulations of environmental phenomena. The project develops methods for testing the performance of micro-climatically-sensitive urban structure plans for new communities as alternatives to energy inefficient and limited technologies of contemporary building types.
His professional practice and design research is focused around the understanding of “sustainability” to the making of built form, most significantly through the formal ideas and technological systems of a bio-climatic design: architecture that represents excellence in design and which is also progressively responsive to low energy, climatic contexts, resource efficiency and global environmental change.
Andrew Scott studied architecture at the University of Manchester (UK), following which he worked for Forster and Partners before forming Denton Scott Associates (1986-93). The practice was honored with an Architecture Today “Low Energy - High Architecture Award” (1991) for its EC-funded design research work with IBM to develop a low-energy office prototype. He has won a number of prizes including the “Building Integrated Photovoltaics” competition (1996) sponsored by the AIA Research and US Department of Energy for a project named Intelligent Pavilion; an Unbuilt Architecture Award by the Boston Society of Architects, and won the commission to design and build a low-energy and environmentally responsible Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston Harbor in 2000.
He has worked and consulted extensively with industrial partners in China, Japan and in the UK- and has organized the MIT international symposiums “Dimensions of Sustainability” and “Mass Impact: Cities and Climate Change”. Current work includes: a design research project with Sekisui House for the restructuring and retrofitting of urban communities, such as a Japanese new town, to develop sustainable urbanism and neighborhood housing strategies for 2050; Sustainable Boston- a data, resource and mapping project and handbook examining the progress and challenges for regional urban climate change; MASS IMPACT: Cities and Climate Change – a publication stemming from the 2008 symposiums examining new solutions for energy, mobility, resources as cities take on demands for carbon and greenhouse gas reduction.
He was a member of the Holcim Awards regional jury for North America in 2005.
[last updated 03-Jan-2007]