Thom Faulders Architecture creates client-based projects at a wide array of building scales, as well as hypothetical architectural proposals and speculative exhibitions that explore interfaces between space, perception, and context. The office situates the practice of architecture within a broader context of performative research and material investigations that negotiate dynamic relationships between users and environments.

Architecture is pursued not as static form or pre-programmed space, but as an arena for adaptive and responsive behaviors. This is an active and opportunistic architecture, articulated through and defined by spontaneous, constantly changing relationships: between functionality and subjective engagement, between optical and haptic conditions, between a building and its surroundings. The work embodies an emerging design intelligence, one that accommodates and embraces the porous, unpredictable nature of today's built spaces transformed by changing technologies, expanding network practices, and environmental exigencies.

The award-winning office explores the medium of architecture as an open condition, with each project being uniquely tailored to address individual client needs or situations. Projects often employ a diverse range of innovative strategies and applications using hybrid materials, patterned geometries, or spatial complexities of articulated elements. The resulting design language facilitates client customization and evolving functionality, while creating provocative environments that are spatially and materially animate and engaging.

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, as Visiting Studio Critic at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and in numerous workshops addressing issues in contemporary architecture, including the CCA 333 Program and the SCI-Arc 2+2+2 Summer Graduate Program. He has been a design jury critic at many institutions, including UCLA, Penn Design, University of Toronto, Columbia, Cranbrook, Harvard, and SCI-Arc.

Thom Faulders received his license to practice architecture in California in 1998. Early in his career, he 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 Richard Neutra in 1946. Faulders has been an Artist in Residence at multiple institutions, including a 1995 invitation to the international exchange program at the Centre D'Art D'Herblay Residency in France.