Anderson Anderson Architecture is a respected, award-winning design firm with experience in a broad range of project types. Partners Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson started the firm as a design-build construction company in 1984. With a strong foundation in the practicalities of construction, we have since grown into a diversely experienced architecture firm collaborating with many other general contractors, manufacturers and construction professionals to provide clients with design excellence, high-quality execution, and experienced representation of the client’s interests throughout the construction process. Maintaining a relatively small design staff assures close personal attention to the firm’s designs projects. Mark and Peter Anderson work together as the lead designers directing all of the firm’s projects, working closely with our clients and collaborators.

Close association with an experienced team of design, engineering, and construction associates provides a depth and range of expertise that has allowed us to accomplish many complex projects of varying scales with a high degree of economy, creativity and recognized excellence in both design and finished construction.

Anderson Anderson has built extensively in the Pacific Northwest, and has also completed numerous projects in other parts of the United States and in Japan. Best known for original, finely crafted modern homes personally developed for individual sites and clients, we also work with numerous business clients, and with public and institutional clients on projects ranging from corporate headquarters and retail projects, to churches and university buildings. Working directly with manufacturers and government agencies in the United States and Japan, Anderson Anderson has designed and built numerous prefabrication systems creatively exploring new construction technologies and affordable building methods. Related work on materials and manufacturing systems has extended into various projects in furniture and product design, and in industry consulting on a variety of creative design, marketing, business strategy, manufacturing and construction issues.

Our firm’s work has been widely published in the U.S., Asia and Europe, and recognized with numerous awards for its creativity in merging design excellence with cost-effective, high-quality execution. The work has been featured in numerous lectures and exhibitions, and in publications such as Architecture, Architectural Record, The New York Times, Dwell, Metropolitan Home, Sunset, Builder, Journal of Light Construction, and in numerous books and international publications. Our projects have also appeared in television specials on PBS, CNN and NHK Tokyo. Design honors have included awards the American Institute of Architects, The American Wood Council, Sunset/Western Home Awards, and the prestigious Progressive Architecture Award.

PRINCIPALS:

Peter Anderson FAIA:
Principal, Anderson Anderson Architecture and Bay Pacific Construction

Peter Anderson has worked in the design and construction industries in the U.S., France, Italy and Japan, with a tightly focused body of work and experience crossing disciplines from architect to construction worker, construction company president, new technology researcher, professor, program administrator, and frequent collaborator on multi-disciplinary public art, and technology projects.  With his brother, Mark Anderson, he is a Partner in Anderson Anderson Architecture in San Francisco and Seattle, an award-winning and widely published design practice recognized for its breadth of creative exploration as well as its innovative construction technology research in the U.S. and Japan. He is a founder and past president of Bay Pacific Construction, Incorporated, a research-driven firm that has constructed over one hundred projects in Washington State and Japan.

From 1997-2001 he established and directed the Construction Process Innovation Laboratory at the University of Hawaii School of Architecture, conducting research and teaching in the area of entrepreneurial, multi-disciplinary creativity in new construction technology applied to critical environmental issues in urban areas. 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 and seminars for design and construction professionals in Japan and The United States.

His design work focuses on new sustainable construction technology and affordable housing adapted for unique sites and cultural conditions. His design work in this area has been commissioned by corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and in Asia, and has received numerous international, national and regional competition prizes and design awards, including three prestigious Progressive Architecture Honor Awards, and has been included in many group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan and Europe. His drawings and design models are included in a number of museum collections, including The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and The Ogden Museum of Art in New Orleans. His work has appeared in numerous books and professional publications in the United States, Asia and Europe —including Architecture, Architectural Record, World Architecture, and The Journal of Architectural Education; as well as having broad coverage in popular media including frequently the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Dwell and other newspapers and periodicals; and in television features on new design and construction technology aired on PBS, CNN, ABC and NHK TV, Tokyo. A monograph on his work, Anderson Anderson: Architecture and Construction, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in Fall 2001, and a new book covering his design work for new sustainable construction technologies, Prefab Prototypes; Site-Specific Design for Off-Site Fabrication, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2007.

Education:
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, M.Arch.
Pacific Lutheran University, B.A., French Language / Literature.

Mark Anderson FAIA:
Principal, Anderson Anderson Architecture and Bay Pacific Construction

Mark Anderson is a founding principal of Anderson Anderson Architecture. He has broad experience and technical expertise in building design and construction, as an architect, general contractor and construction craftsman. In partnership with his brother, Peter Anderson, he has designed and constructed numerous building projects in the United States and abroad—including residential, public and commercial commissions—and has also directed research projects and public art installations in the United States and Asia. He has lectured frequently in the U.S. and Asia on his design work and teaches design studios as well as seminars on creative design and fabrication technology as a member of the design faculty in the Architecture Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His design courses particularly focus on design imagination, artist collaboration, construction system prototyping, and infrastucture system design applied to sustainable environmental issues in urban areas.

Mark Anderson’s design work focuses on new sustainable construction technology adapted for unique sites and cultural conditions. His design work in this area has been commissioned by corporations and government agencies in the U.S. and in Asia. His architectural work has received numerous international, national and regional competition prizes and design awards, including three prestigious Progressive Architecture Honor Awards, and has been included in many group and solo exhibitions in the United States, Japan and Europe. His drawings and design models are included in a number of museum collections, including a suite of his drawings that was exhibited and purchased for the permanent collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has appeared in numerous books and professional publications in the United States, Asia and Europe —including Architecture, Architectural Record, World Architecture, and The Journal of Architectural Education; as well as having broad coverage in popular media including frequently the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Dwell and other newspapers and periodicals; and in television features on new design and construction technology aired on PBS, CNN, ABC and NHK TV, Tokyo. A monograph on his work, Anderson Anderson: Architecture and Construction, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in Fall 2001, and a second book covering his design work for new sustainable construction technologies, Prefab Prototypes; Site-Specific Design for Off-Site Fabrication”, was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2007. His design work in sustainable urban infrastructure was selected for exhibition in the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2006. In 2004 Mark Anderson was named as a National Peer fellow of the federal Design Excellence Commission, and in 2010 he was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Education:
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, M.Arch.
Pacific Lutheran University, B.A. Asian History