Andrew Holder

Andrew Holder is Chair of Graduate Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design at Pratt Institute School of Architecture. He is a principal and co of the Los Angeles Design Group (LADG). He has held appointments at the University of Michigan, UCLA, Sci-Arc, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Queensland, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he served as Program Director for the March I degree track.

Andrew’s scholarly work proposes ways that buildings become active participants in the human social field. In recent work he develops this idea through the term “assembly” — using the way architecture is made as a prompt for how it participates in social formations. He is the co-author, along with K. Michael Hays, of the book Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, and his writing has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, and edited volumes, including Log, Pidgin, Harvard Design Magazine, Architectural Record, Assembly: Matter, Lineament, and Aggregated Systems in Architectural Production, Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production, Young Architects 14.

Andrew’s design work at the LADG includes a series of houses in Los Angeles, a rural retreat in Maine, and a recent exhibition for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The firm is the recipient of the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York, two Progressive Architecture awards, multiple citations from the Los Angeles chapter of the AIA, and was nominated in 2024 for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize. Recent work has been published A+U, Metropolis, The Los Angeles Times, Dwell, Young Architects 16, a+t, Log, Pidgin, Project, and RM 1000.