Andy Summers (he/him) is a Glasgow-based architect, educator, curator, and public programmer specialising in architecture and the built environment. He is interested in developing and contributing to a pluralised, progressive culture of architecture which seeks to support a just common good. His work questions and explores the conditions within which architectural cultures emerge, often challenging existing structures and cultural norms. He is interested in cultural democracy, and the incubation of new intersectional architectures. His work expands the role of architecture in public discourse with particular focus on the commons, queerness, racial discrimination, and radical pedagogy.

Andy is a co-founder and co-director of the Architecture Fringe, a self-initiated non-profit that explores architecture in its social, political and cultural contexts. In 2023 he represented Scotland at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia as co-curator of the exhibition A Fragile Correspondence, with colleagues from the Architecture Fringe, -ism magazine, and /other. With the Architecture Fringe, his work invests in the next generation of socially-minded practitioners through strategic commissioning, exhibition-making and event programming. He is currently exploring how the model of the biennial festival can be more explicitly utilised for positive public benefit and long-term social outcomes.

Recent public speaking engagements include a talk given about his pluralised practice in architecture at the National Galleries of Scotland in conversation with Prof. Fiona McLachlan, and a panel discussion and workshop at the very first symposium of LGBTQIA+ in architecture at the American Institute of Architects National Convention in Washington, DC.

Andy is a Board Trustee at the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, a former judge at the Scottish Design Awards, and is co-pilot for Stage 4 Architecture at the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art.