Thomas Hillier was born and brought up in the always-sunny County of Dorset. In 2001 he began studying furniture design at Ravensbourne College in London, where after a year realised architecture was more fitting to his skills and in 2004 graduated with a 1st Class BA Honours. He later went on to study his Part II Diploma in Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) under the tutorship of Professor CJ Lim and Bernd Felsinger. Here in 2008 Thomas received aDistinction in design for his project ‘The Emperor’s Castle’ a fantastical theatre of surreal spatial thresholds sited in Tokyo that used narrative as a vehicle to examine current day cultural and social issues within Japan. For this he won the Hamilton’s Prize for Best Design Process within the Bartlett Diploma and was nominated as its best graduating Diploma student for BD Magazines ‘Best of 2008’ annual awards.
Thomas’s work has won him a number of awards and he has been published on a variety of occasions in magazines such as Icon, Blueprint, Domus and recently as part of 'Bartlett Designs, Speculating with Architecture’ (Wiley publications). His work has been exhibited around the world including at the Wind Tunnel Gallery in California and notably in 2010 at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition where he was awarded a High Commendation Award for best first time exhibitor. Thomas and his project ‘The Migration of Mel & Judith’ were featured on the BBC Culture Show Royal Academy Special where he explained the thinking process behind the ‘Lampshade’.Thomas recently won RMIT's open competition 'PlastiCity-FantastiCity' which was exhibited at the 1000£Bend gallery in Melbourne. His project along with the other winners is the main feature of publication Kerb18, PlastiCity-FantastiCityavailable on Amazon soon.
Thomas’s architectural interests go beyond the built environment to include art, design, story telling and installations with a particular interest in how literature can be directly translated into urban and architectural space. He attempts to look at architecture from a different perspective, using unorthodox narratives and programmes to create original and often surreal observations. These observations use innovative and poetic materials coupled with a technological and environmental understanding to enhance and blur the thresholds of spatial design. He is driven by a precise and meticulously crafted working method that is illustrated through drawings, models and assemblages. Most importantly he tries not to take architecture too seriously and aims for his work to be as humorous as it is serious, who says architecture cant be fun?
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