denny Architectural Art & Design

Born in 1970 in La Jolla, California, Tom Wiscombe is an architectural designer based in Los Angeles. In 1999, he founded EMERGENT, a platform for researching issues of materiality, technology, and systems through built form. EMERGENT is particularily interested in destratifying space— in creating new architectures through the generation of coherent, operational relationships between buildings components and building systems. The work is positioned within the larger paradigm of systems theory, emergence science, and the philosophical discussion of part and whole. EMERGENT recently won second place in the international competition for the Seoul Performing Arts Center. Their work was showcased in a solo show at the UCLA Architecture Gallery entitled 'Notes on Micromultiplicity' in early 2005. Other exhibitions include the MoMA San Francisco show 'Glamour: Fabricating Affluence' in 2004, ArchiLAB (Orléan) in 2003 and 2001, and MoMA Queens in 2003. Their work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC Centre (Paris) as well as of MoMA San Francisco and recently, MoMA New York. In 2003, EMERGENT won the competition for the reknowned PS1/ MoMA Urban Beach project, which opened to critical acclaim and won the New York Engineering Excellence Platinum Award for 2004. EMERGENT was also awarded the Architectural League of New York Young Architects Award for 2004. The work of EMERGENT has been extensively published, notably in SURFACE*, VOGUE, Architectural Record ...