Faulders Studio is an award-winning
architecture and design office with projects spanning a diverse range of
building scales, interior environments, and exhibitions. With an equal footing
in applied practice and speculative research, the office maintains a vibrant
interdisciplinary presence through its award-winning projects. Led by architect
Thom Faulders, Faulders Studio integrates innovative material performance, user
perception, urban connectivity, and environmental exigencies to pursue
architecture as a dynamic and open condition.This
is a forward-thinking and exploratory approach to creating spaces, articulated
through and defined by the complex relationships linking functionality and
subjective engagement, optical and tactile conditions, or a building and its
surroundings. At Faulders Studio architecture is pursued not as static form or
pre-programmed space, but as an arena for adaptive opportunities and responsive
possibilities. In addition to providing full-service architectural design, the
office is internationally recognized for its in-depth experience in developing
new building and fabrication processes and material applications.In
combination with practice, 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
KTH/Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an invited design
jury critic at leading universities, and lectures at national and international
venues. Thom Faulders received his license to practice architecture in
California in 1998. He spent two years living in Italy, and worked for
Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, one of the founding members of the influential
conceptual theorist group Superstudio, in Florence, Italy. He later joined the
Los Angeles firm of Marmol Radziner & Associates as an on-site building
specialist for the iconic Kaufmann House restoration project in Palm Springs,
originally designed by architect Richard Neutra. Faulders has been an Artist in
Residence at multiple institutions, including the international exchange
program at the Centre D'Art D'Herblay Residency in France.Faulders'
work is included in the Permanent Architecture and Design Collection at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and is included in leading international
exhibitions and publications.