Andy Summers (he/him) is an architect, educator, curator, and public-programmer specialising in cultural production and architecture's relationship to society, cultural democracy and nationhood. His work expands the role of architecture in public discourse through teaching architecture, curating international festivals, designing exhibitions and editing publications.

Currently, he is a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design and is a Teaching Fellow at the Edinburgh School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh. He is a co-founder and co-director of the Architecture Fringe, a non-profit organisation interested in the public common good. He represented Scotland at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale with ‘A Fragile Correspondence’, co-curated with colleagues from the Architecture Fringe, -ism magazine, and /other.

His work invests in the next generation of socially-minded practitioners through strategic commissioning, exhibition-making and event programming, and he actively explores how the model of the biennial architecture festival can be more explicitly utilised for positive public benefit and long-term social outcomes.