Andrew Scott regularly teaches graduate architectural design studios and design research workshops within the Master of Architecture program. His professional practice and design research is focused around the understanding of "sustainability'' to the making of built form, most significantly through the formal ideas and technological systems of a bio-climatic design: architecture that represents excellence in design and which is also progressively responsive to low energy, climatic contexts, resource efficiency and global environmental change.

He was the organizer of the International Design Symposium "Dimensions of Sustainability" that took place in November 1996 at MIT and subsequently edited and designed the book by the same name published internationally in November 1998. The symposium and book set out to broaden the understanding and interpretation of sustainability within the discipline of architecture, and in so doing establish a connection between environmental consciousness and the design strategies that architects, engineers and the design team make at various stages of the design process.

At MIT, Andrew Scott is coordinating with the Building Technology disciple group within the Department of Architecture on real demonstration projects for "Sustainable Urban Housing in China". This work develops a collaboration and integration of design strategies with technical knowledge and computer simulations of environmental phenomena. The research is being developed with in association with Tsinghua University in Beijing, and development companies in Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The project is developing and testing the performance of micro-climatically-sensitive urban structure plans for new communities and new urban housing prototypes as alternatives to the energy inefficient and limited technologies of contemporary building types.

In Boston, Andrew Scott is principal of Andrew Scott Architecture. Prior to coming to MIT, he was in practice in the United Kingdom and was regularly engaged in design education at various UK architectural schools. A member of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he gained his architectural education at the University of Manchester following which he worked with Foster Associates (now Foster and Partners) before forming Denton Scott Associates (1986- 93). The Denton Scott office achieved success in several open architectural competitions (including Aston University Center 1986), and developed a reputation for built projects that demonstrated a sensitive response to context, the craft of expressively assembling materials and an environmental awareness often centered on the adaptive application of the courtyard typology. The practice was honored with an Architecture Today 'Low Energy- High Architecture Award (1991) for it's EC funded design research work with IBM to develop a low energy office prototype.

In 1996 Andrew Scott won first prize in the competition "Building Integrated Photovoltaics" sponsored by the AIA Research and the US Department of Energy. This project (named the Intelligent Pavilion) was selected for a 1996 Unbuilt Architecture Award by the Boston Society of Architects. An Unbuilt Architecture Honor Award from the Boston Society of Architects was also awarded1994, Souks of Beirut competition in 1994. In 1995 he received a First Prize from the ACSA conference for 'Integration of Technology into the Design Studio' for an advanced M.Arch architecture studio and was the recipient of the MIT Class of 60 Fellow award. Most recently in June 2000, he won the commission to design and build a low-energy and environmentally responsible Center for the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston Harbor.