Bio/Contact

1140 Washington Street, #10
Boston, MA 02118

(tel) 646.483.9731
(email) andy@liftarchitects.com
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Andrew is a licensed architect who is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.  He received his Masters of Architecture from Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation in May of 2005.  Prior to that, he studied architecture at Clemson University where he earned a Bachelors of Science degree in 2002. 

Andrew has worked for architectural firms such as Richard Meier & Partners, Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and CCS Architecture in New York and San Francisco; as well as working as an urban designer for the Civic Design Center in Charleston, SC.   He was recently awarded runner up in the 2009 Metropolis Magazine Next Gen Competition for his heat sensitive energy independent ventilation system titled, The Air Flow[er].     

Andrew’s work explores embedded computation and parametric design and he has lectured and taught extensively throughout the United States and Canada.  In 2009, Andrew co-authored a publication with Rajaa Issa titled, The Grasshopper Primer which provides an in depth look at the Grasshopper plug-in for Rhino.   This publication has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, and Spanish (by other authors) with additional translations coming soon. 

More recently, Andrew and Jason Kelly Johnson published Firefly - a set of comprehensive software tools dedicated to bridging the gap between Grasshopper, the Arduino micro-controller, the internet and beyond. It allows near real-time data flow between the digital and physical worlds, and will read/write data to/from internet feeds, remote sensors and more.  His doctoral research at the GSD will explore how recent advancements in technology can help us create spaces and systems that have a capacity to meet changing individual, social, and environmental demands.