Andrea is an architect and engineer educated at the Cooper Union, in New York, and has a Master in Sturctural and Construction Engineering from the UPC, in Barcelona. She is also a founding partner of +groma.
Andrea has been teaching in the Master program at AHO since 2012, offering courses dealing with restoration, building technology, structures and material ecology. In both in current and past courses, Andrea has been developing a pedagogical framework under the umbrella of Material History and Ecology, expanding on themes related to Lightweight architecture, Constructive Logic, Field Stations and Open Structures.
In 2018, she co-edited the Concrete Oslo book (Torpedo Press), which received DOGA's 2018 National Award for Architecture, and Grafill's Most Beautiful Book of the Year Award.
In the past, Andrea has been Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong (2018-2020) and Technology Coordinator at Monash University (2017-2018). She has also served as Associate Director of the Field Stations Program at the Wright Ingraham Institute (2017-2020) and Research Associate at The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (2010-2015).
Current courses:
Pre-diploma coordinator
Lightweight Architecture: Towards A New Material Paradigm
Past Studios:
2022 Constructive Logic: Wasted!
2021 Constructive Logic: Earth Matters
Field Stations: Lightweight Architecture II (COVID Teststasjon)
2020 Field Stations: Lightweight Architecture I
Open Structures: Constructive Logic
2019 Re-Store: Chungking Express
2017 Re-Store: Maintenance
2017 Universals V: Civic Miniatures
2016 Re-Store: Systems
2015 Re-Store: Concrete
2014 Re-Store: Oslo. Reinventing the Government District
Three Critical Projects
2012 Asylum in Venice
Past Electives:
2022 Pre-diploma coordinator
2021 Pre-diploma coordinator
2017 Material History: Reading and Design of Structures
2016 Norwegian Architecture
2015 Norwegian Architecture
2014 Pre-diploma course FTH
2013 Pre-diploma course FTH
Andrea has been teaching in the Master program at AHO since 2012, offering courses dealing with restoration, building technology, structures and material ecology. In both in current and past courses, Andrea has been developing a pedagogical framework under the umbrella of Material History and Ecology, expanding on themes related to Lightweight architecture, Constructive Logic, Field Stations and Open Structures.
In 2018, she co-edited the Concrete Oslo book (Torpedo Press), which received DOGA's 2018 National Award for Architecture, and Grafill's Most Beautiful Book of the Year Award.
In the past, Andrea has been Visiting Assistant Professor at The University of Hong Kong (2018-2020) and Technology Coordinator at Monash University (2017-2018). She has also served as Associate Director of the Field Stations Program at the Wright Ingraham Institute (2017-2020) and Research Associate at The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design (2010-2015).
Current courses:
Pre-diploma coordinator
Lightweight Architecture: Towards A New Material Paradigm
Past Studios:
2022 Constructive Logic: Wasted!
2021 Constructive Logic: Earth Matters
Field Stations: Lightweight Architecture II (COVID Teststasjon)
2020 Field Stations: Lightweight Architecture I
Open Structures: Constructive Logic
2019 Re-Store: Chungking Express
2017 Re-Store: Maintenance
2017 Universals V: Civic Miniatures
2016 Re-Store: Systems
2015 Re-Store: Concrete
2014 Re-Store: Oslo. Reinventing the Government District
Three Critical Projects
2012 Asylum in Venice
Past Electives:
2022 Pre-diploma coordinator
2021 Pre-diploma coordinator
2017 Material History: Reading and Design of Structures
2016 Norwegian Architecture
2015 Norwegian Architecture
2014 Pre-diploma course FTH
2013 Pre-diploma course FTH
Units/fields
- Architecture & Culture
- Architectural History
- Building Heritage
- Materials, Structure & Ecology
- Practise