Andy Summers HRSA (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 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. In January 2025, the Architecture Fringe was awarded Multi-Year Funding from Creative Scotland, the first time that architecture has been included within the national cultural portfolio. Since inception in 2015, the Architecture Fringe has commissioned, inspired or platformed over 500 projects, events and exhibitions across Scotland.
In April 2025 Andy was selected as a 2026 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Loeb Fellowship is for exceptional practitioners whose work is advancing positive social outcomes through the shaping of the built and natural environment in the US and around the world. He is the first person based in Scotland to join the Loeb Fellowship.
In 2024 Andy was invited as an international guest speaker at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention in Washington, DC to share experience and perspectives at the inaugural LGBTQIA+ Architects national symposium.
In 2023 Andy represented Scotland at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia with colleagues from the Architecture Fringe, -ism magazine, and /other as co-curator of the exhibition A Fragile Correspondence which explored ideas on land, language and architecture in context to Scotland's diverse cultural landscapes and environmental conditions.
As well as a Co-Director of the Architecture Fringe, Andy is also a Teaching Fellow at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture (ESALA) at the University of Edinburgh and has been invited as a guest critic to a number of leading architecture schools including the Royal College of Art, Central Saint Martins, Brighton University, the Oslo School of Architecture & Design (AHO) and the Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
A fully qualified architect, Andy studied within the collaborative multidisciplinary atmosphere of Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland before taking his diploma at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. He completed his professional studies at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. During a decade in London, he worked for several high-profile architects including Terry Pawson and Trevor Horne. Between 2008-2013 Andy worked for Zaha Hadid Architects with project work including the Riverside Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, the Central Bank of Iraq in Baghdad, Iraq and the North Souks Department Store in Beirut, Lebanon.
Andy is also a photographer working under his middle names of Robb Mcrae. His work focuses on empathy and portraiture as well as perception within the designed environment and has been published in books and magazines as well as exhibited at the Architecture Fringe and London Festival of Architecture.
