Andrew Moore

Andrew Moore, AA Dip. RIBA, is an architect specialising in community development.

UK architectural work includes work with architects: Norman Foster Associates; Richard Roger Associates, Rem Koolhaas at OMA (Office of Metropolitan Architecture), SOM (Skidmore Owing and Merrill), Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe (Landscape Architects).

In London, UK, he was the founder of Co-operative Housing Services (CHS), an architect’s collective with over fifty staff completing 80+ affordable housing projects that ranged from 25 dwellings to over 1,000 dwellings.

In South Africa, Andrew worked closely with Masisizane Women’s Housing Co-operatives in informal settlements on the outskirts of Johannesburg. He managed the design and construction of over 1,000 self-built homes. The lessons learned from this project informed a model PHP (Peoples Housing Process) that was later implemented across South Africa. THE WORLD HOUSING CONGRESS summed up the story of the Masisizane Women’s Housing Co-operative as: “A group of women from an informal settlement without any formal training or education who initiate and learn to run a multimillion-Rand building enterprise for their community.”

He has assisted in producing legislation for Co-operative Acts and associated Regulations for the UK, Canadian and South African governments.

Since 2007, Andrew has been employed by T’Sou-ke First Nation on Canada’s west coast, working on reserve transforming their visions into reality with major renewable energy, greenhouse, seafood, and cultural projects completed. He recently introduced and coordinated a First Nation to First Nation Community Planning Mentorship program in BC with Indigenous Affairs and Northern Development Canada support that has now been taken up nationwide.

Andrew is a founder member of Harbourside Co-housing, the first Senior Co-housing project developed and managed in Canada, with several others in development including the first co-housing projects on reserve for Indigenous Elders. He is the President of Canadian Senior Cohousing Society, which promotes the principles of co-housing and co-care in existing and new housing developments and communities across Canada to ensure elders can thrive to the end of their days.

As a musician, performer and producer, Andrew has worked with many musical groups in Canada, UK and Africa. He has also produced over 22 short films now shown on PBS, Knowledge Network, Discovery Channel, Radio et Television Quebec and TV Ontario.