Thomas Heatherwick
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- Thomas Heatherwick, CBE RA RDI HonFREng is an English designer and the founder of London-based design practice Heatherwick Studio. He works with a team of more than 200 architects, designers and entrepreneurs from his studio in King's Cross, London.
Heatherwick's projects, many of which have won design awards, include the UK pavilion at Expo 2010, the renovation of the Hong Kong Pacific Place, the Olympic cauldron for the 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics,
Vessel in New York City, and the New Routemaster bus.
Born: Thomas Alexander Heatherwick,
17 February 1970, London, England
Alma mater: Manchester Polytechnic Royal College of Art
Notable work:
The Rolling Bridge (2005)
B of the Bang (2005)
East Beach Cafe (2005)
UK pavilion at Expo 2010
Longchamp store in SoHo
Olympics cauldron (2012)
Zeitz MOCAA (2017)
Vessel (2019)
Honours: Commander of the British Empire
Life and career:
Heatherwick was born in London. His mother designed jewellery; his father was a musician, ran a charity and later worked for Heatherwick's design firm. His maternal great-grandfather was the owner of Jaeger, the London fashion firm, one of his grandmothers founded the textile studio at Marks & Spencer and was subsequently an art therapist, and his uncle was the journalist Nicholas Tomalin.
After primary school in Wood Green, he attended the Rudolf Steiner School Kings Langley, in Hertfordshire, which emphasises gardening, handcrafts, and the performance art of eurhythmy, and Sevenoaks School in Kent.
He studied three-dimensional design at Manchester Polytechnic and furniture design at the Royal College of Art (RCA). In his final year at RCA in 1994, Heatherwick met designer Terence Conran; after seeing Heatherwick's plan for a gazebo made of two curved stacks of birch plywood, Conran invited him to construct it at his country home, and bought it.
Heatherwick founded Heatherwick Studio in 1994 after his graduation from the RCA. Conran asked Heatherwick to make an interior display for the Conran Shop, which led to his first public commission after Mary Portas saw it and commissioned Heatherwick to make a window display for the 1997 London Fashion Week at the Harvey Nichols department store.
He is a Senior Fellow and external examiner at the Royal College of Art, a Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum; a fellow of the Royal Academy, and a Royal Designer for Industry.
He has served on numerous judging and advisory panels and has given talks at institutions including the RIBA, Bartlett School of Architecture, the South Africa Design Indaba conference, the Royal Academy and TED2011.
Approach to design:
Heatherwick Studio combines a wide range of design disciplines, including architecture, engineering, transport and urban planning to furniture, sculpture and product design. Heatherwick has emphasised his dislike since his student days of "sliced-up ghettos of thought" which separate metalwork, product design, furniture design, embroidery, fashion, sculpture, and architecture into distinct departments, preferring to see all three-dimensional design as a single discipline. Rather than working from flashes of inspiration, he compares the problem-solving orientation of his studio to solving a crime by a process of elimination.
Awards and recognitions:
Heatherwick's design awards include the Prince Philip Designers Prize (2006), the London Design Medal (2010), the Tokyo Design and Art Environmental Award for designer of the year (2010), the RIBA Lubetkin Prize (2010) for the UK Pavilion, and the Compasso d'Oro (2014) for the Magis Spun chair (which is also held in the collection Compasso d'Oro collection of the ADI Design Museum in Milan).
In 2004 he became the youngest practitioner to be appointed a Royal Designer for Industry. He was made an Honorary Fellow of RIBA in 2007 and of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2016.
Heatherwick has been awarded Honorary Doctorates from the Royal College of Art, University of Dundee, University of Brighton, Sheffield Hallam University, University of the Arts London, and Manchester Metropolitan University.
He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to the design industry.
In 2015, Heatherwick was named one of GQ's 50 best dressed British men.
In 2019, Heatherwick received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement presented by Awards Council member Julie Taymor during the International Achievement Summit in New York City.
Selected works:
Rolling Bridge
B of the Bang
East Beach Café
Worth Abbey
UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010
New Routemaster bus
2012 Olympic cauldron
Proposed Thames Garden Bridge
Bombay Sapphire distillery
Learning Hub
Coal Drops Yard
Zeitz MOCAA
Vessel
Bund Finance Centre
Google headquarters
1000 Trees
Airo Car
Quotes:
“I don't feel I'm trying to make art. I'm trying to make interesting things. People can relate to that.”