Tom Emerson (architect)

Emerson was born in France and brought up in Belgium.{{Cite web|date=2017-04-05|title=Interview: Tom Emerson & Stephanie Macdonald, 6a architects|url=https://somethingcurated.com/2017/04/05/interview-tom-emerson-stephanie-macdonald-6a-architects/|access-date=2021-07-25|website=Something Curated|language=en-GB}} For his studies, he came to the United Kingdom. He studied architecture at the University of Bath, the University of Cambridge and at the Royal College of Art where he met his partner Macdonald.

In 2001, Emerson founded 6a architects alongside Macdonald. Projects have included Raven Row, 2009, South London Gallery 2010-18 incorporating a garden by Gabriel Orozco and the conversion of the Fire Station,{{Cite web|title=The Radical Cosiness of South London Gallery’s New Fire Station Annexe {{!}} Frieze|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/radical-cosiness-south-london-gallerys-new-fire-station-annexe|access-date=2021-07-25|website=Frieze|language=en}} the V&A fashion gallery, Sadie Coles HQ in London and MK Gallery in Milton Keynes winner of an RIBA South Award in 2021. 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). He was awarded the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize in 2018 for his academic work with ETH.{{citation needed|date=March 2024}}

Emerson has written several academic journal articles including for AA Files,{{Cite journal|last=Emerson|first=Tom|date=2001|title=From Lieux to Life...|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/29544257|journal=AA Files|issue=45/46|pages=92–97|issn=0261-6823}} as well as articles for Architects' Journal.

Tom Emerson lives in London and Zürich. In London, he lives with his partner Stephanie Macdonald.{{Cite news|last=Roux|first=Caroline|date=2021-02-20|title='Zaha Hadid couldn’t stand being called a woman architect - I’ve never given a damn'|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/property-and-architecture/zaha-hadid-couldnt-stand-called-woman-architect-never-given/|access-date=2021-07-25|issn=0307-1235}}

• Oki-ni, Savile Row, London, 2001
• Raven Row, Contemporary Art Exhibition Centre, Spitalfields, London, 2009
• South London Gallery, London, 2010
• Fashion Galleries, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 2012
• Romney's House, Hampstead, London, 2012
• Tree House, London, London, 2013
• Façade for Paul Smith, Albemarle Street, London, 2013
• Studio for Juergen Teller, London, 2016
• Cowan Court, Churchill College Cambridge, 2015–16
• Black Stone Building, London, 2017
• Coastal House, Devon, 2017
• Blue Mountain School, London, 2018
• MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2019
• Holborn House Community Centre including Great Things Lie Ahead 2020 with Caragh Thuring, 2022
• CARA, Centre for Art, Research and Alliances, New York, 2022

• Never Modern by 6a architects and Irénée Scalbert, Park Books, Zurich, 2013, {{ISBN|978-3-906027-24-1}}
• 6a architects 2009–17, El Croquis, no. 192, 2017, {{ISBN|978-84-947754-0-6}}
• 6a architects 2001–22, A+U, no, 623, {{ISBN|978-49-002128-0-0}}

• [http://www.emerson.arch.ethz.ch Professor Tom Emerson Chair of Architecture and Construction ETH Zurich]
• [http://www.6a.co.uk 6a architects]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/mar/09/mk-gallery-new-milton-keynes-art-gallery-6a-architects MK Gallery review in The Observer]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/oct/02/juergen-teller-studio-london-review-6a Juergen Teller Studio in The Observer]
• [https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/mar/27/raven-row-architecture-review-spitalfields Jonathan Glancey Raven Row art gallery: east London architecture at its finest Guardian Review]
• [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f8cf230-0753-11de-9294-000077b07658.html#axzz3ZCqC4Ef5 Edwin Heathcote Financial Times Review]
• [http://www.iconeye.com/architecture/features/item/10035-6a-architect-detectives Icon Magazine feature on 6a architects]

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