Andrea Love, FAIA, LEED Fellow / Principal / Director of Building Science

Andrea Love leads the integration of high-performance design and research across our work. A national leader in sustainable design, her work advances the role of building science as a generative force in architecture, linking performance, material systems and formal expression. Andrea has taught at both Harvard and MIT and previously served on the Board of the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE). Her research-driven approach informs projects that achieve ambitious energy and carbon goals while maintaining architectural clarity and rigor. Her deep understanding and passion for sustainably designed buildings is evident in everything she does. She is an exceptional researcher, designer and teacher who has transformed the practice of architecture.

Her diverse portfolio demonstrates the integration of complex programs with beautiful, high performance design. Her strategies, backed with thorough research, guide design decision-making to help projects achieve aggressive energy goals. Andrea serves as the project leader for sustainable design and building performance on every project to ensure that the elements most critical to the project’s vision and program are considered through the lens of building performance. Each of our projects is subjected to an intensive, data-driven investigation of building systems, materials, envelope and operational energy use to optimize performance and minimize environmental footprint.

Additionally, she leads a number of internal research projects and was the Principal Investigator on the 2012 AIA Upjohn Research Initiative-funded “Thermal Performance of Facades,” a research project focused on thermal bridging. She also leads the firm’s efforts on the AIA 2030 Commitment, tracking and benchmarking the performance of projects across the firm.

EDUCATION
MS, Arch. Studies, Building Technology, 2011, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B.Arch., 2002, Carnegie Mellon University