Tom Heneghan

Tom Heneghan was born in London, England. He graduated from the Architectural Association (AA) in 1975 and subsequently taught at the AA as Unit Master from 1976 until 1990, when he set up his office, The Architecture Factory, in Tokyo.

In 1994, Heneghan was awarded the ‘Gakkai Shoh’ – the most prestigious award of the Architectural Institute of Japan, and in 2002 he received the ‘Kokyo Kenchiku Shoh’ – the Japanese Government’s principal award for public architecture.


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Since 1976, Heneghan has won twenty-eight architectural competitions and awards in Europe and Japan. His architectural works have been published and exhibited internationally, and were included in the Japanese pavilion at the 1996 Milan Triennale, and in the ‘Totalscape’ exhibition of Japanese architecture at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, in 2000. His works have been of all types and at all scales, from museums to bridges to a commissioned conceptual master-plan for Japan’s future new capital city. He is currently completing a 200-house estate in Beijing, China. He was one of 10 editor-critics of the critically acclaimed 10 X 10, volume 1, published by Phaidon Press.

He is Chair of Architecture at the University of Sydney, Australia.