Andy Sternad
Waggonner & Ball
principal & business unit leader
Andy Sternad
Andy leads Waggonner & Ball’s resilience practice at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban design. He focuses on urban and building solutions that reveal the character of place and integrate issues of climate, nature, economy, and people.
Andy works to build long-term collaborative partnerships between clients, communities, designers, and technical experts. He has played an integral role developing and refining the firm’s Dutch Dialogues® and Living With Water® design approaches in New Orleans, Houston and Charleston.
Andy was a lead author of the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, which catalysed a regional shift towards sustainable and resilient water management. He also managed W&B’s Water As Leverage project in Chennai, India.
In the US, Andy led the 80-acre Gretna City Park resilient stormwater redesign, the first built pilot project of Louisiana’s LA SAFE adaptation strategy.
In Charleston, Andy served as W& B’s project lead for Dutch Dialogues® Charleston, the City Plan Land & Water Analysis, and the USACE Perimeter Protection Analysis.
He was selected to participate in the AIA Young Architect Forum’s Mission 2130 to reimagine design practice for the century beyond the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Andy recently served as a College of Charleston urban planning thesis advisor. He is on the board of Ripple Effect, a New Orleans-based non-profit centre of excellence for water literacy and a member of the Washington University in St. Louis alumni board of governors.
