Mark Anderson has worked in the construction industry since high school as a construction worker, architect, and general contractor. In partnership with his brother, Peter Anderson, he has designed and built numerous residential and light commercial buildings and public art installation projects in the United States and Japan. He is currently involved in a number of research, design and construction projects in the U.S. and in Asia.
He has lectured and written educational materials for numerous professional seminars in the U.S. and Japan on topics of design and construction technology and has lectured frequently at universities in the U.S. and Asia on his design work. He has taught design studios on urban issues and new construction technology focused on cities in the Asia-Pacific region; lecture and laboratory courses on construction materials and processes; and seminar courses relating entrepreneurial opportunities in new technology and product prototyping to environmental and urban issues in Asian cities.
A significant focus of his work has been on new construction technology and he has served as a consultant in this area for corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and in Asia. His creative work has received numerous awards and has been included in group and solo exhibitions in the United States as well as in Japan. His work has appeared in books and professional journals in the United States, Asia and Europe as well as in newspapers and in television features on new construction technology aired on PBS, CNN, ABC and NHK TV, Tokyo. His projects have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and are the subject of a current monograph from Princeton Architectural Press, Anderson Anderson: Architecture and Construction.
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Peter Anderson has an undergraduate education in foreign languages and international trade, 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 U.S., France, Italy and Japan, and has a particular interest in international trade as it relates to construction technology and new communication technology. He is President of Bay Pacific Construction as well as a Partner in Anderson Anderson Architecture. He is currently a visiting faculty member of the University of Hawaii School of Architecture, where he is Director of the Construction Process Innovation Laboratory, conducting research and teaching in the area of entrepreneurial business opportunities in technology and urban development. He has frequently been invited to speak at universities and at international architecture and building construction conferences in the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asia, and has been extensively involved in developing and presenting construction technology courses for design and construction professionals in Japan.
His design work has received numerous recent awards from the Northwest/Pacific Region AIA, the Southwest Washington AIA, Seattle AIA, AIA /Sunset Magazine Western Home Awards, and the American Wood Council. His work has been published in books and journals in the U.S., Europe and Asia as well as in numerous newspaper and magazine articles. His design and construction technology work has been included in the PBS television series Future Quest, and other technology projects have been featured on CNN and on NHK TV in Japan. His projects have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions, and are the subject of a current monograph from Princeton Architectural Press, Anderson Anderson: Architecture and Construction.
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Hannah Brown is a graduate of Bowdoin College in Maine where she studied Art History and the Practice of Art. After graduation, she worked in Boston for a non-profit art association as an administrator – managing portrait commissions and planning and mounting exhibitions in the association’s Newbury Street gallery. A graduate of the master’s program at the University of California at Berkeley, Hannah has worked on the illustrations and research for books such as The Nature of Order by Christopher Alexander and the forthcoming book on Sea Ranch by Donlyn Lyndon. Hannah is a designer and key administrator in Anderson Anderson Architecture’s San Francisco office.
Hannah manages many projects in ACMI, including the Pre-Historic Construction Document Research.
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Lawton Eng served for several years in the U.S. Air Force before returning to New York to attend Parsons School of Design and Pratt Institute. Lawton has studied landscape architecture at the University of California in Los Angeles while working for the LA Group. An experienced model and cabinet maker, Lawton is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and has previously been employed by Leddy Maytum Stacy in San Francisco.
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Jeff Jordan joins the ACME team with several years of experience as a stunt double on Hollywood action films. His recent work with predominantly psychic poodles gives him a unique insight into today’s construction industry. ACME represents an opportunity for copious fame and fortune with a South Pacific retirement imminent.
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A brief self-descrption: Architecture, furniture, film, cooking and breakdancing, I do not discriminate one inspiration from the next to inform a continuing discourse. I enjoy the relentless pursuit of the unknown with a smile. Full speedwobbble.
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Chae is an undergraduate student of Architecture and Rhetoric. Her past occupations include: guest star in an Italian radio show, pop-corn girl at the Cal basketball games, telemarketer, etc. She created this website and worked as a research assistant for the Pre-Historic Construction Document Research project.
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