Tom Wiscombe's guest appearances

Tom Wiscombe

Night White Skies

Archinect Sessions One-to-One

School of Architecture Lecture Series

Geoff Manaugh

Charles Waldheim

Sylvia Lavin

Liam Young

Ursula K. Le Guin

Adam Frank

Pierluigi Serraino

Omar Khan

David Biello

Paola Antonelli

Jimenez Lai

Edward Tenner

James Hughes

Fred Scharmen

Sophia Roosth

OwlTail

Tom Wiscombe is Principal of Tom Wiscombe Architecture which is currently planning the Main Museum of Los Angeles Art with Developer Tom Gilmore in Downtown LA. As well as the West Hollywood Belltower on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles. Wiscombe is Chair of the B.Arch Program at SCI-Arc, where he has taught for over 10 years.  Previously to all this, Tom worked for Coop Himmelb(l)au, where he was Chief Designer for BMW Welt, Munich, the Lyon Museum of Confluences, and the Dresden Cinema Center.

Tom Wiscombe is Principal of Tom Wiscombe Architecture which is currently planning the Main Museum of Los Angeles Art with Developer Tom Gilmore in Downtown LA. As well as the West Hollywood Belltower on Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles. Wiscombe is Chair of the B.Arch Program at SCI-Arc, where he has taught for over 10 years.  Previously to all this, Tom worked for Coop Himmelb(l)au, where he was Chief Designer for BMW Welt, Munich, the Lyon Museum of Confluences, and the Dresden Cinema Center.

Ep. 026 _ Tom Wiscombe _ 'A More Robust Discipline'

Architect and educator Tom Wiscombe has made major inroads as SCI-Arc's BArch chair to establish a stronger connection to the humanities and critical theory in architecture education, founding the school's Liberal Arts Program last year and bringing in contemporary philosophers and theorists to spark new dialogues. We discuss his role in the southern Californian architecture culture (particularly in regards to MOCA's 2013 New Sculpturalism show), how he prioritizes theory in architectural practice and education, and his ongoing Main Museum of Los Angeles project in the city's enlivened downtown.  Correction: this episode thanks SCI-Arc for helping coordinate the interview – while Tom is on faculty there, it was his alma mater of UCLA that assisted in scheduling the interview.

Architect and educator <a href="http://archinect.com/tomwiscombe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tom Wiscombe</a> has made major inroads as SCI-Arc's BArch chair to establish a stronger connection to the humanities and critical theory in architecture education, founding the school's Liberal Arts Program last year and bringing in contemporary philosophers and theorists to spark new dialogues. We discuss his role in the southern Californian architecture culture (particularly in regards to MOCA's 2013 <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/72428894/gehry-pulls-out-of-moca-s-a-new-sculpturalism-exhibition" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New Sculpturalism</a> show), how he prioritizes theory in architectural practice and education, and his ongoing <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/122304156/take-a-peek-at-tom-wiscombe-s-underground-old-bank-district-museum-scheme-for-l-a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Main Museum of Los Angeles project</a> in the city's enlivened downtown.  Correction: this episode thanks SCI-Arc for helping coordinate the interview – while Tom is on faculty there, it was his alma mater of UCLA that assisted in scheduling the interview.

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Wiscombe has developed an international reputation through winning competition entries, exhibitions of work at major cultural institutions, and publications worldwide. In 2012, Wiscombe, was part of the joint design team organized by Morphosis to compete for the  Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, which received second prize. In 2011, Wiscombe won first place in two competitions for the 2013 Chinese National Games, including a 123,000 square meter Civic Sports Center and a 5,000 seat Judo Arena in Shenyang. In 2011, Wiscombe was also hired to design the Beijing National Hotel by the Interior Ministry of China, which features 1,500 rooms and a 10,000 square meter internal rainforest.