Zander Auerbach Email & Phone Number

United States

Massachusetts, New York, Maine, Vermont

Architecture and design firm dedicated to building beautiful and practical spaces and to preserving the natural world. Serving residential, museum, and commercial clients from NYC to the Hamptons, Martha's Vineyard to Cambridge, and Vermont to Maine, AO Architecture & Design is full service firm led by Harvard- and Yale- educated Zander Auerbach and Emily.

- Designer of a New Museum Building, linking 1740 and 1820 buildings and housing a collection of 19th Century murals. - Developer of $1M art project in Malmo Sweeden. Award-winning public art project that connects audiences to the natural world: a robotic climate chamber to house a clone of the 9,500 year-old Norwegian Spruce tree, “Old Tjikko.” - Director.

Cambridge, MA

Led R&D and horticultural research at the MIT Media Lab. Built climate simulators to identify the ideal climates for 59 subspecies of hazelnut true. Managed a team of 25 engineers, scientists, and agronomists from MIT, Wageningen University, and leading food company Ferrero SpA, solving waste and climate resilience in the $2B hazelnut industry.- Worked on.

Beverly Farms, MA

Designed and taught an experience-based science curricula for 95 students in chemistry, physics, earth sciences, and citizen science. Wove together seemingly disparate topics like demographics and density, meditation and neuroscience, astronomy, and environmentalism.- Led students to build machines and utilize software for a hands-on approach to scientific.

Greater New York City Area

Part of the Senior Management Team directing the construction, engineering, design, and financial decision-making of building a ground-up 250,000 square foot apartment building in midtown Manhattan. Resolved conflict among a 400 person team, favorably negotiated multi-million dollar contracts, and streamlined a large, complex project to meet timelines and.

Cambridge, MA

Created homes, masterplans, and schools that connect people to the natural world by blurring the boundary between indoors and outdoors, with modern, elegant, and environmentally responsible design. - Led a $5M residential project from schematic design to construction set, managing roadmaps and budget. - Leveraged the value of the clients, preservationists.

Ba, English Literature, Cum Laude, Gpa 3.7

Activities and Societies: Phillips Brooks House Tutor to Refugee Students; Harvard Freshman Outdoor Program (FOP) Leader & Mentor; Varsity.

Master Of Architecture - March, Gpa 3.72

Research & Design focused on Embodied Carbon Accounting and Operational Carbon Accounting in Architecture.