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Thom, founder of Faulders Studio, situates the practice of architecture within a broader context of design research that explores haptic relationships and material performance between users and environments. This is an open and opportunistic architecture, articulated by new modes for integrating functionality and subjective engagement, optical and perceptual phenomena, and design strategies that address unique environmental conditions. Recent awards include a New Practices Award from the San Francisco AIA; winner of the Rising Tides Competition sponsored by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission; and Top 25 International Projects for Private Plots International Competition in Austria. Faulders received an Emerging Architect Award from the Architectural League of New York, and awards from the Bienal Miami + Beach, and the American Institute of Architects, the Society of Environmental Graphic Design, and he is a recipient of the SFMOMA Experimental Design Award 2001. Recent group exhibitions include Sensate: Bodies and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Learning Modern at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Architecture and Lace at the Maison De l’Architecture et De La Ville in Euralille, France; New Practices San Francisco at the Center for Architecture in New York; CAMP: Reconsidered at 3A Garage in San Francisco; and Case per Tutti at the Fondazione La Triennale di Milano. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, permanent collection exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Lisbon International Biennale, and the Kunstlerhaus in Vienna, and is collected in the Permanent Architecture and Design Collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Thom Faulders is an Associate Professor in Architecture at CCA: California College of the Arts in San Francisco. He has previously taught at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He has lectured in many academic and professional venues nationally and internationally, most recently for the SFMOMA Architecture and Design Forum, Stockholm Association of Architects in Sweden, the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, and Association for Collegiate Schools of Architecture Conference in Los Angeles, among others.
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Thom Faulders, Architect, 
