After completing a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Sydney in the early 1990s, Andrew went on to study at the Harvard Graduate School of Design before accepting a teaching position at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Here he taught architecture within the context of a fine arts college, an experience that would later influence the development of his own practice. “There was a strong culture of making,” Andrew recalls of his time at RISD. “It was a very creative, physical kind of architecture school.” Returning to Sydney in 2001, Andrew established Andrew Burges Architecture.
Andrew Burges's Latest contributions
The city-making potential of architecture
Andrew Burges explores four key strategies to enhance architecture’s power in collective city-making, as demonstrated by the 16 inspiring projects presented at the 2019 Architecture Symposium, Sydney.
First House: Carport Treehouse
Completed in 2004, this pavilion was one of the first projects by Andrew Burges Architects. Thirteen years later, Andrew reflects on how this pavilion began his practice’s lineage of meticulously documented and atmospheric projects.
Gissing House (1972) revisited
A modest voice in the conversation of late modernism.
