Anthony Abbate, NCARB, AIA, LEED AP, Professor at the School of Architecture, joined the faculty in 1996. He served as director of the school from 2017 to 2019 and as the Associate Provost for the Broward Campuses from 2011 to 2020.  He was director of the MetroLAB (Broward Community Design Collaborative) from 2006 to 2011 and leads its design action research agenda to engage students in collaborative community design practice. He teaches Architectural Design, Urban Design, Materials and Methods of Construction, Subtropical Architecture, and Architectural Detail Generation. 

He has published several monographs of the architectural and urban design work of graduate level students, including Subtropical Sustainable: A Context Sensitive Design Approach to Redevelopment in Broward County (2008); Concepts for Conservation Cove: the future of Grand Bahama Island (2023), and [Re]Imagining Primary Education: a design studio for shaping the future (2024). He also authored the Broward County County-wide Community Design Guidebook (2005), contributed a chapter in Allan Shulman’s Miami Modern Metropolis: Mid Century Architecture and Urbanism in the Tropics (2010), and served on the editorial board of the Instituto de Arquitectura Tropical in San Jose, Costa Rica.

He has received 26 awards for design excellence from the American Institute of Architects and has consulted on projects in Florida, New York, North Carolina, The Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, and Colombia. 

He has lectured at universities in Australia, Mexico, and Colombia and served as the US Chair of the International Subtropical Cities Conference Design Interventions for Changing Climates (2013), hosted by the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture. He also co-chaired the 3rd International Subtropical Cities Conference, hosted by Florida Atlantic University and the Queensland University of Technology (2011). He was featured in an interview on Smart City with Carol Coletta (National Public Radio) and on Australia Talks Back with Paul Barclay (Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio National); and is a frequent guest on Middle East Broadcasting Network’s Alhurra Television and WLRN Miami Public Radio.

He is serving an appointment to the Broward County Historic Preservation Board and has served as chair of the Broward Cultural Council, the Broward County Public Art and Design Committee, City of Fort Lauderdale Beach Redevelopment Advisory Board, Sustainability Advisory Board, and Sustainability/Green Committee. He also serves a chair of the Board of Hispanic Unity of Florida and on the Board of Directors of the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce. He served as representative of AIA Florida on State of Florida Department of Education Building Construction Advisory Committee and is a past-president of the Fort Lauderdale Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

A native of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, he received a Master of Architecture from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from The Catholic University of America. He has also completed certificate programs at the Harvard GSD in AI, Machine Learning and the Built Environment, Building Envelope Problems, Real Estate Financial Analysis, ADA Compliance Issues, and the Language of Design.