Tom Lewith

Experience

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  Hudson Architects

  Aug 2003 - Aug 2004

  Architectural Assistant
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  Paul Davis and Partners

  Apr 2008 - Jul 2012

  Project Architect
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  TDO architecture

  Jan 2010 - May 2024

  Director

  TDO was a creative architecture studio founded by Doug Hodgson and Tom Lewith in 2010 with fellow Bartlett graduate Owen Jones.The practice regularly featured in the architectural press. Its reputation was built on its completed projects: contemporary additions to historic settings - through retrofit and new build - and as innovators with Modern Methods of Construction. The portfolio encompassed residential, workplace and community focused schemes of varying sizes. The success of the practice and its work led to both Tom and Doug being named in The Architects’ Journal ‘40 under 40’, and the studio featuring in the Architecture Foundation’s ‘New Architects 3’. TDO’s built work also featured in industry research publications and building studies. The last major project completed by the studio was described by The Architects’ Journal as a ‘contemporary idiom of originality and consequence’.Tom and Doug closed TDO in 2024 to launch New-works, which explores new ways of working that can address the generational challenges facing the profession. Show less

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  New-works

  May 2024 - now

  Founding Director

  New-works was founded in 2024 to respond positively and proactively to an inflection moment in the profession. The climate crisis, a growing need to focus on wellbeing in the industry, the financially precarious nature of conventional architectural practice, the advent of AI and the Building Safety Act demand fundamental change. We believe the established model of all-services architectural general-practice needed to evolve for all but the smallest and largest practices.New-works was formed to explore a new way of working based on the principles of specialism and collaboration, wellbeing and sustainability. Show less