Lecture

Thom Faulders
Thom Faulders Architecture
'agile architecture'
thome faulders web site

Thursday, April 24, 2008, 6:30 pm
IFM
Institute for Micro-Manufacturing

Thom Faulders
Thom Faulders is the founder of Thom Faulders Architecture, an architecture and design studio located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The award-winning office situates the practice of architecture within a broader context of performative research that explores the medium of architecture as an active condition. The work encompasses client-based projects at a wide array of building scales, as well as hypothetical architectural proposals and temporary exhibitions that create interfaces between space, perception, and context.

In Faulders' designs architecture is not static form or pre-programmed space, but an arena for adaptive and responsive behaviors. This is a dynamic and open-ended architecture, articulated through and defined by spontaneous, constantly changing relationships: between functionality and subjective engagement, between optical and tactile conditions, between a building and its surroundings. Faulders' architecture embodies a new kind of design intelligence, one that accommodates and embraces the porous, unpredictable nature of today's network culture.

Faulders' methodology is to negotiate complex relationships between viewer and object. He employs and manipulates a diverse range of innovative strategies and emergent technologies: hybrid materials, patterned surfaces, and complex arrangements of repeated elements. The resultant tectonic language facilitates customization and evolving functional needs, while creating provocative environments that are spatially and materially animate.

In combination with running his architectural practice, Faulders is an Associate Professor in Architecture at CCA: California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has taught at UC Berkeley, as a Visiting Studio Lecturer at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and in the SCI-Arc 2+2+2 Summer Graduate Program. Early in his career, he worked for Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, one of the founding members of the influential conceptual theorist group Superstudio, in Florence, Italy. Faulders joined the Los Angeles firm of Marmol Radziner & Associates as the on-site framing specialist for the iconic Kaufmann House restoration project in Palm Springs, originally designed by Richard Neutra in 1946.

In 1995 he was an invited international artist at the Centre D'Art D'Herblay Artist in Residence program in France. Faulders has received numerous honors, including awards from the Architectural League of New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Bienal Miami + Beach, and the American Institute of Architects.
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