ANDREW TUZ
216 Coach Ridge Trl, Matthews, NC 28105 andrewtuz12@gmail.com
704-533-5682
EDUCATION
Clemson University
B.A., Architecture and B.A., Economics Double Major
GPA: 4.0
National Scholars Program
Clemson University Honors College
Departmental Honors Candidate
Architectural Sketchbook Class: IED Rome
In-depth investigation of Italian architectural thought
Expected Graduation May 2026
Explored Rome’s public spaces and cultural identity through various methods of design expression
Summer 2023
WORK EXPERIENCE
LS3P Paid Intern
Contributed to schematic design of a medical magnet high school
Sketched full renders and physical models
Learned Revit, networking, and effective teamwork skills
Brownstone Construction Group Paid Intern
Handled change orders and RFIs and attended on-site collaborations and meetings
Gained real job experience in construction and architecture processes
The Lofts of Greenville Commission
Designed studio spaces for twenty artists in an existing room in an apartment complex
Worked with client, owners, and artists to meet changing demands
Painting Commissions
Work with clients to complete large paintings based on client directives
Artwork displayed in US and international locations
Software Proficiencies
Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign, AutoCad, Rhino, SketchUp, Revit (limited)
RESEARCH
Baroque Period in Central Europe
Awarded a travel grant to document Baroque architecture and craft a detialed research paper Research extended across Germany, Belgium, Czechia, Austria, Italy, and the Vatican
AI in Architecture Documentation
Summer 2024
Summers 2021-22
Spring - Fall 2024
Wrote a research paper on how AI can be used in later design phases of the architectural process
Summarized previous research and interviews with four experts on AI in the field of architecture
President of Clemson University Habitat for Humanity
Plan and lead construction of a house on campus each year during Homecoming Week
Communicate with Habitat board members and campus advisors
Vice President of Tigers 4 Accessibility
Plan Accessibility Awareness Week activities every March
Designed t-shirt and other materials for club Spring - Fall 2024
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
Publications
Summer 2023
Summer 2023
Spring - Fall 2024
Spring 2025 - Present
Article published in the first edition of the Inter journal, a student-run architecture publication
Article published in the Clemson World magazine
Tau Sigma Delta
Part of the top 20% of architecture students across the country
Fall 2024
Fall 2024
pages 16-23
A proposed art center in Cayce, South Carolina that creates an experience for visitors through the woods, connecting the riverwalk to the River Arts District through a series of courtyards.
Table of Contents
pages 6-15
An office building in Chelsea, Manhattan that promotes health and wellness, using its adjacency to the high line, natural light and vegetation, and community resources to provide employees and visitors with an elevated experience.
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An artist residence in Cayce, South Carolina located across from the art center that uses a long curved skylight to open up the building and allow natural light to illuminate the interior gallery, studios, and living spaces.
pages 32-39
A dynamic wall in the courtyard outside the Clemson University architecture building made from rails that snake throughout the space and can be manipulated to adapt to student needs.
pages 40-47
A reflection on past works, including commissioned pieces of art, a sketchbook class in Rome, published articles, and other projects through the years.
This office building located in Chelsea in New York City is tailored to the people living and working there. The building promotes health and wellness through medical, counseling, and fitness services provided on the bottom floors, as well as a public plaza at the street entrance and a terrace on the third floor that visually connects to the high line. Inside, a green staircase brings vistors and employees up to the terrace level from the street, while the vertical atrium breaks through the front facade to allow natural light from the skylight above to illuminate all floors of the building. The facility literally and socially elevates the user’s experience.
Path carved out of FAR requirements to create a green wall and terrace
Vertical voids connect sky with lower levels while encouraging vertical circulation
plaza invites visitors in from the adjacent street
Public
The building was designed with the high line in mind. The trellis and terrace face the high line, lining the outdoor space with trees and vegetation. This vegetation continues inside to the green staircase, where natural light pours in from the front facade and skylight above, and
down below in the public plaza. The vertical and horizontal integration of natural elements becomes the focus on creating an environment that encourages health and wellness. However, direct light is blocked by the panels on the facade, preventing harsh light from entering but allowing
diffused light to brighten the space. This language continues to the public plaza, where wood panels block the noise and activity from the street outside to create a serene sitting and eating space for employees and visitors.
Kasmin Gallery
Greene Naftali
M11 Bus Route
Chelsea Park
Avenues the World School
To Hudson Yards
High Line
Direct Sun is Blocked
Panels Flat on Glass Facade
Panels Angled 45 Degrees to Glass Facade
Panels Become Mullions for Glass Facade
Metal Panels that Mimic Wood
Glass Panels
Concrete Slab
Metal Trellis
Sunlight Diagram:
Sunlight Diagram: Midday
Sunlight Diagram: Afternoon
Counseling Green Staircase Atrium
Situated between the Congaree River and downtown Cayce, South Carolina, this proposed art center focuses on the meandering the woods riverwalk to the town’s lively river arts district. The building’s courtyards that allows visitors to enter through the back and exit onto State Street while still feeling like they are in the woods.
vertical wood slats line the perimeter of the courtyards, mimicking the appearance of the surrounding woods and visually exterior space serves as a centralized home for the area’s art resources, including a 10,000 sq. ft. exhibition space, theater, classrooms, and four art studios for artists in residence.
Arvo Pärt Centre by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos
Building Design courtyards connect riverwalk to downtown
To Downtown Cayce
To Cayce riverwalk
The building design was influenced by the Arvo Pärt Center, designed by Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos. This project used interior courtyards to shed natural light on the interior spaces of the music hall, such as the library and cafe. This idea was applied
to the intent of drawing people from the riverwalk to the river arts district in downtown Cayce. The building serves as a welcome center, providing an experience for visitors as they navigate through the courtyards towards downtown. The light shed by
the interior courtyards serves as a navigation tool for visitors, allowing them to identify where the main path through the building is from any room in the art center.
The gallery is separated from the courtyards by a wall, only allowing light in from diffused skylights above. These skylights allow for a bright atmosphere in a controlled environment while allowing visitors to focus on the artwork without the distractions of the louder courtyards.
The 10,000 square foot exhibition hosts rotating exhibits highlighting local artists and their stories. This space accesses the main entrance, courtyards, cafe, and black box theater. Like the rest of the program, it is defined by the positioning of the courtyards. Public spaces are
adjacent to the courtyards, integrating the cafe, seating areas and classrooms with nature. More intimate spaces like the gallery and black box theater are close to the courtyards but do not provide a visual connection. Private spaces are confined to the remote corners of the building.
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This artist residence in Cayce, South Carolina’s River Arts District is home to two artists who are able to live and practice their trade in the same location. A brick facade with a continuous expanse of windows cutting through the center captures varying light intensities as natural light cascades into the building from above. A gallery space greets you as you step in the main entrance, showcasing selected works of the artists that can be seen from the street. Private office and studio space in the back gives them an opportunity for creativity and serenity. The central atrium connects the spaces together and allows natural light to seap into the innermost rooms of the residence and leads up to apartments on the second floor.
The skylight maximizes the light captured from the sun’s path throughout the day. The curved glass roof splits the building down the middle, allowing natural light to pour into the center of the building. This feature illuminates both artist residences on the second floor, as well as the atrium and offices below.
Light entering the building from the front and back is concentrated in the middle where the entrances and circulation are, and diffused on the sides where bedrooms and private studios are found. Light becomes the determining factor of the division of public and private space.
The skylights continue down the front and back of the building, essentially dividing the brick building into two. Twisting bricks line the sides of the front and back facade, diffusing light into the gallery and art studios on the first floor, where harsh direct light is unwelcome.
The skylights follow the general circulation of the residence between the public gallery space at the main entrance into the private offices and art studios. The skylights also divide the building in half, giving the space a bright and open feel between the residences and studio spaces. The
central atrium allows this natural light to pour into all rooms of the building and acts as a vertical shaft, concentrating the light from the horizontal skylights overhead. This dynamic light condition allows for interesting shadows that are cast within the building throughout the day.
The building was also designed so that the path of the sun would travel along the skylight, illuminating different corners of the building at different times throughout the day and providing a physical sense of time.
Roof
Rotating Bricks
Glass panels
Stacked Bricks
Mullions
This proposed wall installation is located in the Lee Hall courtyard next to Clemson University’s architecture building. Sixteen continuous curved rails are designed to follow the topography of the raised mounds that surround the courtyard, creating undulations in the landscape. The design also diverts the main focus away from the center of the space to the curved wooden rails that encircle you. These sixteen continuous rails can be manipulated by the user to adapt to their needs. Visitors can sit, climb in, or walk under the wall as they wait between classes or need a quiet place to rest. U
The wall was designed by bridging the green spaces between the walkways through the courtyards that connect the campus buildings. The continuity of the design is visually represented by the rails that seem to snake around the courtyard. In green areas it seems
to disappear into the topography of the mounds, while over paths it seems to hover over passerbys. This contrast creates a dynamic space that users are able to interact with while still functioning as an efficient roadway between classrooms. Movement
is created as the rails diverge and converge throughout the courtyard, almost giving the appearance of a living organism that is moving throughout the courtyard.
The wall has a consuming presence; after all, it is massive in comparison to the buildings adjacent to it. However, this creates an immersive experience for students and further invites them to interact with the wall since they cannot help to avoid it. The
manipulative nature of the wall also allows it to take up a different portion of the courtyard as users move it to fit their needs. While it is massive in scale, it has a lightness to it, almost seeming as if it floats above you as you pass under it. The sixteen rails
are meant to give the courtyard a more transparent feel, as people are reclining in the grass under it and experience the outdoor space as it was intended to feel like.
There are a number of projects that I have completed outside of my college education. I complete commissioned paintings, mainly oil paintings, for clients. I have also completed a number of art pieces while studying in Rome the summer after my freshman year. I completed a number of essays and research papers and my experiences have been published in the Clemson architecture journal and the Clemson World magazine. Finally, I completed a commissioned architecture project where I designed studio spaces for the Lofts of Greenville.
Seiganto-ji Temple Oil on Canvas
COMMISSIONED PAINTINGS
I have been doing commissioned paintings since the start of high school, including works for family, friends, professors, and people I have never met. I work with oils, acrylic, and watercolors on canvases as small as
5 x 7 and as large as 48 x 60 inches. Most of the places I paint are associated with where someone lived or visited recently, whether that was my Cotillion instructor that lived in Japan for two years, my Clemson professor that took us on a study abroad trip to Regensburg, Germany,
or a friend’s grandparents who live in Latvia. I love learning from this process as I have been exploring new techniques and styles of painting ever since I studied under Andy Braitman in middle and high school (although my painting is a lot tighter than his style).
Utah Mountains Oil on Canvas 48 x 60
Biltmore Estate
Pen and Watercolor
16 x 24
Disko Island, Greenland
Watercolor
8 x 10
Regensburg, Germany
Oil on Canvas
10 x 20
ROME ARCHITECTURAL SKETCHBOOK
CLASS
During the summer after my freshman year at Clemson, I studied at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome where I took their Architectural
Sketchbook class. During this month-long class, we walked to a different part of the city and sketched landmarks like the Colosseum, Pantheon, and Trevi Fountain. During this month, I also traveled to other Italian cities, where I created more pen and watercolor paintings. While in
Rome, I also researched the Baroque period and combined previous writings with my experiences in churches like San Carlino alle Quattro Fontane to write a paper comparing the Baroque period at its origin in Rome to its spread to the rest of Central Europe.
Piazza Navona Pen and Watercolor 8 x 10
Santa Maria del Fiore Pen and Watercolor
5 x 7
Duomo di Milano Pen and Watercolor
5 x 7
San Giorgio Maggiore Pen and Watercolor
5 x 7
THE LOFTS OF GREENVILLE
I was commissioned to design a layout for artist studios for The Lofts of Greenville, an apartment complex that was converted from an old mill in Greenville, South Carolina. Between April and December, 2024. I visited the site to assess the room and design around existing systems to create rooms that independent artists could work out of. Throughout this period, I had to navigate issues with leaking through the brick wall, changing studio size and number requests, and correspond with the client, owners, and potential artists. This was a paid opportunity that was made possible by my connections to Clemson professors but not related to the University in any way.
INTER- JOURNAL PIECE
This piece was published in the first edition of Inter-, the new Clemson architecture journal that adopts a new theme each year to inform the School of Architecture of contemporary experiences, projects, and people related to the field. The article focuses on the third place, the year’s theme, as it relates to an old power plant in Rome that was recently converted into a museum to display ancient Roman sculptures, mosaics, and art that were previously hidden to the public.
