Tom Wiscombe

Tom Wiscombe was born in 1970 in La Jolla, California, USA. He received his Master of Architecture I degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). He was senior designer and project partner at Coop Himmelb(l)au for over 10 years, right-hand to principal Wolf Prix.
He founded EMERGENT in 1999, an organization dedicated to architectural research.
He has taught design and technology at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), UCLA, UC Berkeley, the Technical University of Sydney, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He was the Esherick Chair of Architecture at UC Berkeley for 2005, and is currently teaching in the X-Program at SCI-Arc, a postgraduate program focused on digital design techniques. He lectures widely, most recently at Cornell University, Rice University and Yale University.