PRINCIPAL, AIA, LEED AP
Andrew Dunbar is a licensed architect in California with over 25 years of architectural project design and management experience in both public and private projects in the U.S. and Canada. As a founding partner of INTERSTICE Architects, he acts as the studio’s architectural design leadership. Andrew’s recent work in the Bay Area includes civic spaces, custom residential projects, commercial buildings and interiors, streetscapes, multi-acre campus landscapes, parks, multi-family housing, and campus master plans, many of which have received AIA and ASLA recognition.
Andrew’s extensive travel, urban research, and broad project experience in Canada, Europe, and the Bay Area has defined his interest in place and material expression. Andrew’s early professional design career was shaped by his experience as a senior designer and project architect with Saucier-Perrotte in Montreal, where his work encompassed the design of major public cultural centers, including museums, theaters, universities, and libraries, as well as commercial projects.
Andrew has spent over a decade teaching art and architecture at Bay Area institutions including the California College of the Arts and the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught Graduate level architecture design studios as well as various interdisciplinary art and architectural studios from Foundation 2, 3 and 4-Dimensional studios in Bachelor of Art, Architecture and Master of Architecture Programs. Andrew is an accomplished painter, artist, and maker of architectural and functional objects. His works from studios in Barcelona, Vienna, and Glasgow were the subject of the traveling exhibit “City Works” through the support of the Hylcan Foundation Award.
Andrew is a LEED accredited professional, and holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Architecture from McGill University, where he graduated with Distinction, and a Master of Architecture from the Graduate School of Fine Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. Andrew was awarded the AIA certificate of merit for design achievement, The President’s College Prize from the Order of Architects of Quebec, and the Hugh McLennan Memorial Travel Scholarship among others.
He has written articles for Art Papers and has published papers on visual theory and representation as well as lecturing at McGill University, University of Montreal, University of Toronto, Waterloo, and California College of the Arts and UC Berkeley in the Bay Area. As visual artist, teacher, and architect, his work evolves from an ongoing experimentation with materials and various processes of making, which is applied reflexively to the making of architecture and landscapes through a critical investigative lens.