Paul Andersen is a visiting scholar in the department of architecture at Cornell University and the director of indie architecture, a research and design group started in 2006 that forms experimental collaborations on a project by project basis. With a focus on how new technology allows architects to create diverse formal and material organizations and link them to less-visible dynamics, the group engages seemingly disparate cultural and intellectual categories. Projects integrate graphic, botanical, formal, structural, and energy systems within customized sensory fields. As an alternative to mainstream, mass produced, and corporately funded architecture, the office embraces its small market status, is associated with collegiate backpack intellectualism, and consistently seeks new creative channels and modes of dissemination and engagement.
Paul’s work has been widely published and internationally exhibited, including at the Beijing Biennale, A+D Museum in LA, Urban Center Galleries in NY, and the Venice Biennale. Current projects include a movie theater complex with varying microclimates, a prototypical prefabricated wall system with regenerative light and heat cells, and a forthcoming book, The Protean Architecture of Patterns (AAP Press, 2007), in collaboration with David Salomon. Paul is a licensed architect in California and New York.
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