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Sep 29, 1970 France 53 years old
British architect
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About Tom Emerson Architect
- Tom Emerson (born 29 September 1970 in Paris) is a British architect based in London and Zurich.
- His practice, 6a architects, founded with Stephanie Macdonald in 2001 is best known for designing buildings for the arts and education for which it has won several RIBA Awards and the Schelling Medal for architecture.
- Emerson studied architecture at the University of Bath, the University of Cambridge and at the Royal College of Art where he met Macdonald. Gallery projects include Raven Row, 2009, South London Gallery 2010-18 incorporating a garden by Gabriel Orozco and the recently completed conversion of the Fire Station, the V&A fashion gallery, Sadie Coles HQ in London and MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.
- The studio complex for Juergen Teller won RIBA London Building of the Year 2017 and was nominated for the Stirling Prize 2017.
- 6a architects' competition-winning design for a new court at Churchill College Cambridge was completed in 2016.
- Works by 6a architects are particularly noted for their use of materials of strong relationship to landscape and gardens. Since 2010 he has been Professor of Architecture and Construction at the ETH Zurich Faculty of Architecture.
- As part of his teaching and research on landscape and making, his students produced the Pavilion of Reflections floating on Lake Zurich for Manifesta 11 and urban landscape studies on Forst, Galway and Glasgow which was exhibited at Glasgow International in 2016.
- Before ETH Zurich, he taught architecture at the Architectural Association (2000–04) and the University of Cambridge (2004–10).
