Meet the 2023 Young Architects Forum Chair!
Name: Jason Andrews
Firm: Rothschild Doyno Collaborative
Family: My mom lives in Charlotte, NC, where I grew up.
Years in practice: 3.5 yrs.
Education: B.Arch from Virginia Tech Class of 2019
AIA Committees you’ve served on: YAF and the AIA Board of Directors
Favorite thing about YAF: The officers and members who make YAF possible
Your first job: Sandwich Artist
Project you’re proudest of: Polish Hill affordable townhouses with City of Bridges Community Land Trust
Favorite tool (can be digital, drafting, physical,…): Staedtler .05mm Fineliner
Favorite building: Chapel of Las Capuchinas in Mexico City by Luis Barragán. The most exquisite light I have experienced in a building. No photos allowed, but they wouldn’t do it justice anyway.
Favorite outdoor space: Grandview Avenue. Even living in Mt. Washington the view never gets old.
Architect you’d like to have coffee with: Peter Zumthor. I saw him sitting at a café in Bregenz, Austria right outside his Kunst Haus museum while on a semester abroad.
What do you like to do when you’re not working? Exploring Pittsburgh and sketching the many views. Or just playing with my 2 cats Olympia and Macchiato.
Best gift to give an architect: An architecture book or expensive coffee beans
If you hadn’t become an architect, what would you have been? Graphic Designer
If you could live anywhere in the world, where? Barcelona, Spain
What’s on your iPod/Pandora/Spotify? William Tyler, a Folk musician from Nashville, TN
Advice to young architects: Get used to feeling like you don’t know what you are doing because apparently that doesn’t go away.
Architectural quote to practice by: “Any architectural work that does not express serenity is an error.” -Luis Barragán