As architects and educators, our collaborative approach begins with a close working relationship with our clients and extends to  the assembly of a consultant team individualized for each project. Because every project is important and deserving of thoughtful attention, each has the personal involvement of at least one senior principal providing consistent leadership throughout every project. We see collaboration and direct involvement as necessary to achieve design excellence.

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Daniel P. Anderson

Anderson is a principal at the Cambridge architecture firm, Anderson Porter Design, Inc., focused on design innovation and the realization of buildings and places that perform at a high level.  Anderson was one of the founding principals of Four Architecture, Inc. in 1994 a collaborative and award winning design firm.

Anderson has worked in design and project management capacities and brings to each project a strong aesthetic sensibility combined with a commitment to implementing high performance buildings and places.  His design projects have a diverse range from urban design and site security to regional retail revitalization projects, from interior office and workplace design to product design and integrated technologies for media rich environments. 

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Brian D. Anderson

Anderson is a founding partner of Anderson Porter Design, formed in 2008. Anderson began his career working in Vienna, Austria. Returning to the states he worked in Boston with various architectural firms before joining Anderson and Porter at Four Architecture, Inc from 1999 to 2007. During those years he carried out projects in Boston’s Main Street program, where he has assisted owners in planning their growth as businesses, employing architecture and urban design as means to that end. Acting as the local extension of Charles Correa’s Mumbai office, Anderson provided technical expertise and design management in the realization of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences Project at MIT. Anderson work in Master Planning for institutions brings insights from planning, architecture and urban design to the shaping of the institution’s future. He has carried out numerous residential projects, as well.

Anderson is the chair of the Honors and Awards committee at the BAC and has participated in design juries at RISD, Harvard, Roger Williams University and the Boston Architectural College. He is a registered architect in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, a member of the BSA, AIA, and NCARB.

Anderson received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence in 1988 studying in Architecture, Ceramics, Printmaking and Design. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture degree from RISD in 1989.  He earned his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1992, focusing on urban design in Montreal, Quebec and Caltagirone, Sicily.

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William L. Porter

Early in Porter’s career he worked for world-renowned architect, Louis I. Kahn, where he developed his interests in the integrity of building and in the quality of its spaces and light.  As urban designer he developed the master plan for the Tanglewood Music Center.  An accomplished pianist, Porter has a keen interest in performance spaces and has built a reputation in both design and consulting capacities for a variety of performing arts organizations.

Porter is currently Leventhal Professor of Architecture Emeritus at MIT where he was Dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning from 1971-1981. Porter is now leading workplace strategy consulting services and continuing research on how architectural and urban spaces can best reflect and support the changing nature of work, changes resulting from contemporary shifts in the technology, organization and geographic dispersion of work.  He  is a senior technical advisor to CoreNet Global an international knowledge organization for workplace and workpractice innovation.