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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Tongji University (TJU), China

Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA), Mexico

University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa

Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Brazil

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Andrew Scott

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 is a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

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 in 2000 won the commission to design and build a low-energy and environmentally responsible Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston Harbor.

He was the organizer of the International Design Symposium "Dimensions of Sustainability" in 1996 and subsequently edited and designed the book of the same name published in 1998. The symposium and book set out to broaden the understanding and interpretation of sustainability within the discipline of architecture, and in so doing establish a connection between environmental consciousness and the design strategies that architects, engineers and the design team make at various stages of the design process.

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