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Tom Heneghan was born in London, England in 1951 Tom graduated from the London Architectural Association in 1975 Kumamoto Tom Heneghan Project: image provided by Tom Heneghan Architects via RIAS Tom Heneghan was invited by Arata Isozaki to participate in 'Art Polis' - an international programme of architectural works and annual architecture awards, 1995 - 2000, in Kumamoto, Japan - and this prompted the creation of Tom's architect practice, The Architecture Factory, in Tokyo. After completing his Kumamoto buildings Heneghan received the 'Gakkai Shoh' - the most prestigious award of the Architectural Institute of Japan. Tom received the 'Kokyo Kenchiku Shoh' - the Japanese Government’s principal award for public architecture - for his Forest Park Adatara project in Fukushima in 2002. Fukushima Tom Heneghan Project: image provided by Tom Heneghan Architects via RIAS The government of Toyama Prefecture appointed Heneghan 'Master Architect' for the 'Machi no Kao' programme in 1991, which included buildings by Enric Miralles, Daniel Libeskind, Torres and Lapena and Ron Herron. Tom Heneghan architecture education positions Heneghan taught at the Architectural Association as Unit Master 1976-90 Visiting Foreign Professor: Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture, Japan The Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture 1999 at Washington University in St Louis, USA Visiting Professor of Architecture 2000 at the University of Queensland, Australia External Examiner for the Architecture Department of the University of Hong Kong 1999-2003 Professor at Kogakuin University, Tokyo Chair at the University of Sydney, Australia Tom Heneghan Buildings Tom Heneghan designed the Japanese pavilion at the 1996 Milan Triennale. In 2001 Heneghan lectured in Glasgow at the invitation of the RIAS. Tom Heneghan was a keynote speaker at the RIAS Annual Conference 2002. Tom Heneghan Key Projects Waves Hair Salon, London, England Grasslands Agricultural Institute, Kumamoto, Japan Sea Viewing Platform, Toyama, Japan Schools Vacation Cabins, Hiroshima, Japan Forest Park Adatara, Fukushima, Japan The Whispering Bridge, Toyama, Japan Heaven Chamber, Toyama, Japan London Architecture Tom Heneghan - RIAS Lecture, Scotland: Practice Information Tom Heneghan Review by Murray Grigor, the film-maker and honorary RIAS Fellow: With much wit and industrial strength irony Tom Heneghan got Friday's sessions off to a flying start. First, showing buildings that he had copied - mostly ancient temples and vernacular details from rural Japan, where he has worked for the last twenty years on a most challeging series of projects, Heneghan revealed how his architecture has a great sense of place. Few architects will have ever considered cattle as clients, but Heneghan showed how cows, once offered the comfort of tree like sheltering beams with small windows, feel so much at home that their milk yield increases dramatically. Cows, you see are short-sighted, and Heneghan's great barns seem to make them imagine that they are back under branches avoiding the heat of the sun. This, and a number of other agricultural buildings, showed how applied imagination can even create architecture out of such a daunting commission as vast manure shed. Without the dung it could easily have been taken as a gallery of art - though who knows in these confused days when function follows form. From a forest enclave of housing well deployed through trees to a museum which celebrates Japan's unique but tiny blue ink squirting squid - Heneghan's work is an inspiration to our tacky home builders and the kitschnmongers of the heritage industry. This inspiring man will soon head up the architecture school in Sydney which augurs well for the Australia's future. Tom Heneghan : Review by Murray Grigor Modern Architects Tom Heneghan : Photos Fukushima.jpg Forest Park Adatara, Fukushima, Japan Tom Heneghan Kunamoto.jpg Kumamoto Grasslands Agricultural Institute, Kumamoto, Japan Tom Heneghan Japanese Buildings Architecture Studios World Architecture : e-architect - key buildings across the globe Buildings / photos for the Tom Heneghan Architects page welcome: info@e-architect.co.uk Tom Heneghan Buildings - page : adrian welch / isabelle lomholt			Key Links: Skyscrapers New Houses Architects