Peter Anderson

Peter Anderson has an undergraduate education in foreign languages and international studies, and received his graduate education in architecture and advanced visual studies from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked in the construction industry in the United States, France, Italy and Japan, and has a particular interest in international commerce and cultural exchange related to architecture, construction technology, and prefabricated timber building systems. He is a Principal at Anderson Anderson Architecture, where he has led design and construction projects in many areas of the United States and in Asia. He has frequently been invited to speak at universities and at international architecture and building construction conferences in the US, Asia and Europe. His work has received numerous competition prizes and design honors, and has been widely published and exhibited in The US, Asia and Europe. He is a Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts, in San Francisco. He has been a guest faculty member and lecturer at numerous universities, including UC Berkeley; The University of Hawaii; Chinese University, Hong Kong; Tongji University, Shanghai; National University of Singapore; Tamkang University, Taipei; SCIArc, Los Angeles; International Laboratory for Architecture and Urban Design (ILAUD), Venice, Italy; Krakow Polytechnic, Poland; Politechnico di Torino, Italy; and Northwest Polytechnic, Xi’an, China.