Andrew Benner
Director of Exhibitions and Senior Critic
Andrew Benner is the principal of abab, an architectural practice based in New Haven, Connecticut. He has more than twenty-five years of experience working on award-winning commercial, residential, and institutional projects. As Director of Exhibitions he launched the North Gallery program and has brought both original and traveling exhibits to the Architecture Gallery. His current research is on the installation based art of Robert Irwin.
BArch Rice University
MArch Yale University
Education
BA Rice UniversityBArch Rice University
MArch Yale University
Email
andrew.benner@yale.edu
Courses
5026
Spring 2026
Advanced Design Studio
Billie Tsien, Andrew Benner
5010
Fall 2025
Advanced Design Studio: THE KUELAP CONNECTION: The missing Link between the Amazon and the Andes in Peru
Sandra Barclay, Jean Pierre Crousse, Andrew Benner
1012
Spring 2025
Architectural Design 2
Annie Barrett, Andrew Benner, Laura Briggs, Talitha Liu, Joeb Moore, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
1105
Fall 2024
Advanced Design Studio: Intertwined Visions: Reimagining Cusco’s Salt Mine
Sandra Barclay, Jean Pierre Crousse, Andrew Benner
1012
Spring 2024
Architectural Design 2
Annie Barrett, Andrew Benner, Laura Briggs, Joeb Moore, Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Lexi Tsien-Shiang
1108
Fall 2023
OUTER COAST: School of Art and Language
Azadeh Rashidi, Billie Tsien, Andrew Benner
1115
Spring 2023
Advanced Design Studio: Life/Craft: Architectural Behaviorology at the Raymond Farm in New Hope
Momoyo Kaijima, Andrew Benner
1107
Fall 2022
Turtles All The Way Down
Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Andrew Benner
1117
Spring 2022
Advanced Design Studio: De/constructing Cultural Tourism
Rossana Hu, Lyndon Neri, Andrew Benner
1106
Fall 2021
Advanced Design Studio: Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Andrew Benner
1115
Spring 2021
Advanced Design Studio: Manufacturing Wonderland
Marlon Blackwell, Andrew Benner
1107
Fall 2020
Advanced Design Studio: Troubled Waters
Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Andrew Benner
1112
Spring 2020
Cultural Dreaming: Alternative Futures for Urban Renewal Memories
Walter Hood, Andrew Benner
1104
Fall 2019
Advanced Design Studio: Conjunto
Billie Tsien, Tod Williams, Andrew Benner
1115
Spring 2019
Advanced Design Studio
Sandra Barclay, Jean Pierre Crousse, Andrew Benner
1105
Fall 2018
Advanced Design Studio
Lyndon Neri, Rossana Hu, Andrew Benner
1012
Spring 2018
First-Year Core Studio
Alan Organschi, Andrew Benner, Adam Hopfner, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore, Peter de Bretteville, Marta Caldeira
1102
Fall 2017
Elia Zenghelis
Elia Zenghelis, Andrew Benner
1012
Spring 2017
First-Year Core Studio
Alan Organschi, Andrew Benner, Peter de Bretteville, Adam Hopfner, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore
1101
Fall 2016
Newfoundland Food Institute
Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, Andrew Benner
1012
Spring 2016
First-Year Core Studio
Alan Organschi, Andrew Benner, Adam Hopfner, Amy Lelyveld, Joeb Moore, Peter de Bretteville, Herbert Newman
1101
Fall 2015
Advanced Design Studio: City Pivot
Elia Zenghelis, Ioanna Angelidou, Andrew Benner
1115
Spring 2015
Advanced Design Studio: Unreal City
Niall McLaughlin, Andrew Benner
