tomi hilsee

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Tower of Love;
an architecture thesis
Making Through Remembering/Unknowing History; Re-inhabiting the Neolithic Longhouse
Assembly Architecture + Threshold Nest
the architecture of violence; constructing Rotterdam: from the polder parcel to urban housing
Marking Gentrification:
research on squats and real estate development
Social Practice Library
w/ Jeanne van Heeswijk
Mobility Mobile @ IABR
w/ Kimi MetalWorks
Fictional Dispatch Office
@ BAK Utrecht
That Exhibition That Happened in the Corridor
Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats
Reading Room Rotterdam
Bakfiets Library
Fictional Dispatch: This round for Palestine
Fictional Dispatch: anonymous(?) correspondence bike messenger round project roffa
'Or Noir' Exhibition; Social relations of petrochemicals
72 Kneeland; a history of a site in Boston's Chinatown
Visitor Center @ Althouse Arboretum
Newburgh Community Photo Project
Reclaiming the Land; constructing collectivity on a terril
Lumbung Bus @ Documenta15
'The Voyage': Rhizomatic Gift-giving Traveling Seminar
Conditioned Listening
Feminist Hack Meetings
Zine Library
'Groep Soep': Sauna building as collective study
(Put to) Queer Use?
Work Out: One Big Massive Collective Drawing
WdKA: Continued Extended Encounter (Scores for Study and Process)
This is Me! This is my Place!; a bachelors thesis
Walking and Noting: Places and Paths
A House in the Woods
We painted the bridge red

building projects

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Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats Greenhouse Extension
WET Film: Mezzanine
Garden Terrace in Hillegersberg
TENT: 'To Be Like Water'
D. Mullen Studio
Kitchen in Overschie
Gemaal Op Zuid: Social Harbor
Cat Ladder in Rotterdam
Mortise and Tenon Chair
Car Trellis in Cambridge
Studio paintings storage
New Jersey Historic Home
Studio Babel Amsterdam
Reciprocal Structure in Beirut

bio

Tomi Hilsee is an architect and builder whose approach to design is to cram as much love into a situation as possible. Interested in the fluctuating relations that make up our possibility to build things together, they stress a shift onto how we build rather than what we build.

contact

thilsee @ tomhilsee . com

Rotterdam based

CV

studies

* Technical University Delft
MSc Arch., 2017-20
* Massachusetts College of Art
BFA Arch., 2012-15
* American University of Beirut
2014
* University of New Mexico
2010-12

talks/events

* Gathering Amidst the Ruins, Casco Art Institute, 2021
* Wild Talks #6, Porto Design Biennale, 2021
* Fictioning Comfort, Showroom MAMA, 2020
* Working with Wheels workshop for Queer/Trans/NonBinary/+, Tender Center, 2019
* Fielding Architecture; Feminist Practices For A Decolonised Pedagogy, University of Brighton, 2019
* That Exhibition That Happened in the Corridor, TU Delft, 2019
* Building Diversity, TU Delft, 2018

experience

Tomi has worked in various capacities within architecture— from supervising construction administration for medium size commercial and social housing projects with Davis Square Architects, to independently facilitating the collaborative design of community spaces, and engaging directly in design-builds as both builder and architect. Additionally they have worked as a historian, namely with the Chinatown Atlas/MIT Urban Studies, mapping the poltical-geographic history of Bostons’ Chinatown, and as an honors student within the Chair of Architectural History at TU Delft. Recently they have taught in Social Practices at Willem de Kooning Academy, and currently they co-operate the Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats in Rotterdam and work as a freelance builder.