Lecture: Tom Wiscombe
EVENTS
November 21 | 6:30pm
Perlof Hall, Decafé, UCLA Campus
Tom Wiscombe is a licensed architect living in the United States. He is founder and principal of EMERGENT, an internationally recognized design office operating at the forefront of digital design since 1999. EMERGENT's work stands out in terms of its synthesis of form, pattern, color, and technology. In 2009, ICON Magazine named Principal Tom Wiscombe one of the "top 20 architects in the world who are making the future and transforming the way we work".
Tom is a senior faculty member at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc). He teaches in the M.Arch II and Emerging Systems and Technologies programs, both focused on experimental digital design. He is currently Applied Studies Coordinator, in charge of curriculum building and faculty recruitment. Previously, Tom worked for Coop Himmelblau, where he was the right hand of Principal Wolf Prix for over 10 years. Notably, he was Project Partner and Chief Office Designer for BMW Welt (Munich), known as one of the most important works of architecture of the 21st century.
In 2008, Tom founded Crystalline RP, a company that specializes in design and rapid prototyping for the motion picture, automotive, and aerospace industries. Tom began his career as an intern at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, where his father is Chief Scientist.
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