THOMAS HEATHERWICK
Thomas Heaterwick is a British designer born in London in 1970. He studied tridimensional design at the Polytechnic of Manchester and at the Royal College of Art in London. Soon after his graduation, he founded the Thomas Heatherwick Studio, which deals with design and architecture and which today has a team of sixty people, including architects, designers and engineers. The activity of the studio is focused on commercial and residential projecting, master planning and infrastructure projecting, as well as on public art works with a high quality. Thomas Heatherwick is Senior Fellow and external examiner at the Royal College of Art, Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum and he has been selected to be mentioned as Royal Designer for Industry. Among his most famous works, there are the B of the Bang, the East Beach Cafe, the so called “Boris” (a new bus for London) and the Seed Cathedral. He designed the secret brazier for the Olypic Games of London 2012. The V&A of London dedicated to him and to his studio its first monographic exhibition entitled Heaterwick Studio: Designing the Extraordinary”.