Tomi Hilsee

Making Through Love; an architecture thesis

Making Through Remembering/Unknowing History; Re-inhabiting the Neolithic Longhouse

the architecture of violence; constructing Rotterdam: from the polder parcel to urban housing

The Pores of our Skin are Full of Plastic: A Brief History of Petrochemicals

72 Kneeland; a history of a site in Boston's Chinatown

Reclaiming the Land; constructing collectivity on a terril

Visitor Center @ Althouse Arboretum

Newburgh Community Photo Project

That Exhibition That Happened in the Corridor

Doe-Het-Zelf Werkplaats

Assembly Architecture + Threshold Nest

Fictional Dispatch: ~~anonymous~~(?) correspondence bike messenger round ~~project~~ roffa

Fictional Dispatch: This round for Palestine

'The Voyage': Rhizomatic Gift-giving Traveling Seminar

WdKA: Continued Extended Encounter (Scores for Study and Process)

(Put to) Queer Use?

'Groep Soep': Sauna building as collective study

Work Out: One Big Massive Drawing

This is Me! This is my Place!; a bachelors thesis

Astronomy Tower

A House in the Woods

Walking and Noting: Places and Paths

We painted the bridge red

MassArt: Center of Vision

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 flucuating 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.