Education
Harvard Graduate School of Design, MAUD with Distinction
University of Virginia, M.Arch
University of Minnesota, Bachelor of Science
Anthony Averbeck is an architectural and urban designer, researcher, educator, and author. His work lies at the intersection of housing, infrastructure, and society, with a focus on advancing architectural education and design discourse around the future of collective living. He recently earned his Master of Architecture in Urban Design (MAUD) with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was a Dean’s Scholar and served as a Design Critic in the Design Discovery program and a Research Associate. Currently, he is a Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Design at the Northeastern University College of Arts, Media, and Design, where he teaches in both the undergraduate and graduate architecture programs and is coordinator of the Urban Housing core studio.
Previously, Averbeck was a full-time Lecturer at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where he co-coordinated the Elements of Housing studio, taught seminars on architectural visualization and workflows, and co-led the Summer Design Institute—a multidisciplinary introduction to design for incoming graduate students in the M.Arch and MLA programs.
Averbeck has collaborated with notable design and research practices, including Somatic Collaborative, Arctic Design Group, Leers Weinzapfel, and Bjarke Ingels Group. He is a recipient of numerous prestigious scholarships and research grants, including awards from the Edelstein Family Foundation, Paul and Winifred Stary Family Foundation, the Harvard GSD Dean's Merit Scholarship Fund, the University of Minnesota College of Design Dean’s Scholarship Fund, and the Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation.
Averbeck’s forthcoming book, Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary (co-authored with Felipe Correa and Devin Dobrowolski), examines over sixty multi-unit residential projects to explore the architect’s role in shaping domesticity and urban life in the 20th and 21st centuries. His research and writings have appeared in leading publications such as the Harvard Urban Review, Urban Design in Dialogue (UD:ID), and LUNCH Journal, and have been featured by institutions and platforms including Harvard, Yale, Northeastern, the University of Virginia, the University of Massachusetts, the Venice Architecture Biennale, AZURE, and e-flux.