Education
MAUD with distinction, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
M.Arch, University of Virginia School of Architecture
Bachelor of Science, University of Minnesota College of Design
Anthony Averbeck is an architectural and urban designer, researcher, author, and educator. He holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and has taught as an instructor in the Design Discovery program. He is presently teaching as a Lecturer in Architecture at the Northeastern University College of Art, Media, and Design. Previously, he was a lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. At UVA, he co-coordinated several iterations of Elements of Housing, a second year foundation studio, and taught a seminar on architectural visualization and workflows among other courses. He also co-taught the Summer Design Institute, an interdisciplinary introduction to design for incoming graduate students in architecture, landscape architecture, and urban and environmental planning. His forthcoming book Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary (with Felipe Correa and Devin Dobrowolski) examines through text and drawing more than sixty case studies of multi-unit residential projects. In doing so, the book presents a written and visual narrative of the architect’s role in shaping domesticity and urban life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He has contributed to the Harvard Urban Review, Urban Design in Dialogue, and LUNCH Journal among other publications. His teaching and research has been featured by Harvard University, AZURE, e-flux, and
In addition to teaching and research, Averbeck has collaborated with design and research practices in Massachusetts, New York, Minnesota, and Virginia, including Somatic Collaborative, Arctic Design Group, Leers Weinzapfel Associates, and Bjarke Ingels Group among others. He holds a Master of Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he graduated with the Lori Ann Pristo Award, and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with high distinction, from the University of Minnesota. He is the recipient of numerous scholarships and grants for academic merit and research scholarship, including from the Edelstein Family Foundation, the Paul and Winifred Stary Family Foundation, the Harvard Dean's Merit Scholarship Fund and the Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation.