Andy Summers
Andy Summers is an architect, educator, curator, and public programmer specializing in cultural production that reimagines architecture as a radical social act.
He is interested in cultural democracy, and the incubation of new intersectional architectures. His work expands the role of architecture in public discourse with particular focus on the commons, queerness, racial discrimination, and radical pedagogy.
Andy is a founder and codirector of the Architecture Fringe, a nonprofit organization at the forefront of progressive change within architecture and the built environment in Scotland. He represented Scotland at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale with “A Fragile Correspondence,” co-curated with colleagues from the Architecture Fringe, –ism magazine, and /other. He is also a teaching fellow at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh.
Andy’s work invests in the next generation of socially-minded practitioners through strategic commissioning, exhibition making and event programming, and he actively explores how the model of the biennial festival can be more explicitly used for positive public benefit and long term social outcomes.