Andrew Schachman
Dear School of Architecture Community,
We are pleased to announce our next guest lecturer, Co-Founder & Co-Director of Floating Museum, Andrew Schachman. He will be speaking at 5:30PM on Monday, October 12, 2026, here in the Plym Auditorium (Room 134) of Temple Buell Hall.
Andrew Schachman designs environments, infrastructures, and installations. He co-founded and co-directs two nonprofits. Floating Museum uses site-responsive art and design to explore the relationships among art, community, architecture, and public institutions. Fieldwork Collaborative Projects turns civic spaces built for sport and recreation into platforms for culture and civic engagement. Floating Museum served as the artistic team for the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial, This is a Rehearsal.
As principal of Studio Andrew Schachman, he designed the Palais de Tokyo’s exhibition “Singing Stones” at the DuSable Museum of African American History. Trained as an architect, he worked for Doug Garofalo, Carol Ross Barney, Zaha Hadid, and Perkins + Will. His projects have received the AIA Distinguished Building Award and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design.
Food will be served in the Temple Buell Hall Atrium beginning at 5PM.
We look forward to seeing you there!