Andrew Gilmour is an artist and architectural designer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is a Master of Architecture candidate, an early career artist with the Canada Council for the Arts, and a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant recipient (2020) for his thesis research, “The City as a Thing to be Deconstructed: A Reverse Choreography of Building”. Andrew presently specializes in computation in architecture, advanced modeling, and materials research with James Forren and the Material, Body, and Environment Laboratory (MBEL). He previously held research and design positions with Edwin (Ted) Cavanagh PhD and Coastal Studio while writing and publishing Thinking While Doing: Explorations in Educational Design/Build (Dr. Edwin Cavanagh, Stephen Verderber, and Arlene Oak PhD).

Andrew holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies from Dalhousie University (2019). During his undergraduate studies he accepted the Nova Scotia Association of Architect’s Ojars Biskaps Award (2019). He is a four-time Nova Scotia Talent Trust Scholarship recipient, a 2018 and 2019 Dalhousie School of Architecture Portfolio Prize winner, and a five-time Dean’s List Designation. He is motivated by current intersectional paradigms: computation and craft; natural, human, and non-human actors; the arts and the sciences.