Eighth Edition 2021-2022
Tom Emerson
UK / Switzerland
Member
Founded 6a architects with Stephanie Macdonald in London in 2001. 6a has recently completed the new mk Gallery in Milton Keynes, the South London Gallery, a photography studio complex for Juergen Teller and Cowan Court at Churchill College, University of Cambridge. 6a architects has received several RIBA Awards, the Schelling Medal in 2012 and was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize in 2017. Emerson appointed Officer of the British Empire (obe) in the 2021 New Year Honours List for services to architecture and education and was awarded the 2018 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize in Zürich.
Work and writings by the practice have been exhibited and published internationally. Books include Never Modern produced in collaboration with Irénée Scalbert (Park Books, 2014) and a monograph by El Croquis was published in 2018.
Tom Emerson studied at the University of Bath, the Royal College of Art in London and the University of Cambridge. He taught at the Architectural Association (2000-2004), Cambridge (2004-2010) and, since 2010 has been full professor at the ETH Zurich and currently Dean of the Department of Architecture.