Urban Design Option Studio led by Averbeck and Andrea Leers “Leveraging Boston’s Building Boom to Advance Equity” featured on Harvard Graduate School of Design’s website

Andrea Leers’s Urban Design studio, “Leveraging Boston’s Building Boom to Advance Equity” (taught with Associate Instructor Anthony Averbeck), took on a real site as a case study in proposing a more vibrant, inclusive, and welcoming type of innovation district in Boston. “The task that we set for ourselves was how to build on the energy and initiative of this burst of economic investment to build more than a cluster of lab buildings and associated facilities, but something that could really benefit and connect with the adjacent neighborhoods to foster equity.

Averbeck presents his work at the 2026 Design Research Week and CAMD Day at Northeastern University College of Arts, Media, and Design

Design Research Week is a weeklong event that showcases design-led research projects and initiatives. Keynotes, panels, workshops, exhibitions and more connect Northeastern’s research community with external stakeholders, partners, and guests across the design ecosystem in the Boston area and beyond. For this edition, the program will be organized around an overarching theme: Performing Futures.

Anthony Averbeck in Conversation with Wayne Congar for the HUTS Homework Podcast

“HOMEWORK is a series of interviews conducted by HUTS founder Wayne Congar about how to make the design, financing, and construction of homes work better, and suck less.”

São Paulo: A Graphic Biography in São Paulo Exhibition Featured in NESS Magazine

The exhibition curated by Felipe Correa, Sol Camacho, Devin Dobrowolski, and Anthony Averbeck in collaboration with Escola da Cidade brings to São Paulo a new reading of this exceptionally complex metropolis and suggests new ways of envisioning its urban future. Beyond presenting the first history of the Paulista urban form and carefully detailing the formative processes that gave shape to this manufacturing capital, São Paulo shows how the city can transform its post-industrial lands into a series of inner-city mixed-use affordable housing districts.

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Anthony Averbeck and Elyjana Roach interview Cristiane Muniz and Fernando Viegas of São Paulo based architects and urbanists UNA MUNIZVIEGAS for UD:ID (Urban Design in Dialogue)

Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary previewed in AZURE

It is at UVA, where he focuses on megacities such as Jakarta, Mexico City and New York City, that Correa is currently completing (with Dobrowolski and Anthony Averbeck) the research project “Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary.” Conceived as a catalogue and traveling exhibition, it brings together over 60 housing case studies from the 20th and 21st centuries, in order show how the discipline of architecture has helped shape how we live collectively, and hallucinate on the lifestyles of the urban dweller in the decades to come.


Averbeck collaborates with Arctic Design Group and Lateral Office, authors of “Contested Circumpolar: Domestic Territories” exhibition for the 2021 Venice Biennale “How Will We Live Together?”

Territorial claims, resource extraction, climate change, and ongoing colonialism reflect the range of ways in which inhabitation has been imposed and negotiated in the last hundred years. Simultaneously, emplaced stories of daily life of inhabitants who call the Arctic home further reflect a richly heterogeneous, cultural landscape at the forefront of accelerated transformations. Contested Circumpolar: Domestic Territories represents key narratives of inhabitation from each Arctic nation that reveals deep connections from the domestic interior to the landscape territory. The installation situates domestic life entangled with broader sociocultural, economic, and geopolitical forces, and it is conceived as “extracted core samples” capturing place-specific, domestic-territorial linkages that are also emblematic of collective matters of concern in the Arctic.