Dr. Jeffrey Anderson

Biography

Jeffrey Anderson is an educator, architectural designer, and AR/VR software developer. He currently teaches design studios and advanced media seminars in the Graduate Architecture Urban Design program at Pratt Institute and the University of Pennsylvania. As the lead software developer at the Design Lab at Mancini Duffy, he conducts design research and develops architectural visualization tools. His current software development work focuses on creating new forms of physical and virtual collaboration, empowering members of the design process. His research emphasizes using technology to establish new relationships between users, architecture, context, and interaction, with a specific interest in sensing feedback and mixed reality. He is the author of the forthcoming book 'Ecologies of Building Envelope: Material History Theory of Architectural Surfaces' (Actar, 2021), co-written with Alejandro Zaera Polo, which analyzes the social, political, technological, and economic forces embedded in architecture over the last century. His work has been exhibited at notable venues including Pratt Institute, the Seoul Biennale, Princeton University, and the Venice Architecture Biennale. He holds a Master of Architecture II from Princeton University and both a Master of Architecture and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with Honors and Distinction from the Knowlton School of Architecture at Ohio State University.

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