Tom Dowdall Architects is a studio for architecture, design and construction. Our focus is on sustainability and craftsmanship.

The studio has launched following the success of Eavesdrop, a Paragraph 80, single storey house in the High Weald AONB.

Eavesdrop demonstrates our belief in an architecture that can be highly sustainable in its entirety: in its design; in the way it is built; and in the way it is lived in.

Eavesdrop was built as a Self-Build, and the physical experience of doing so has shaped us.

The process of turning the ‘idea’ into something built is always magical.

AWARDS:

SHORTLISTED

2024 RIBA South East Awards

WINNER

2023 British Homes Awards, House of the Year (over 2,500sqft)

SHORTLISTED

2023 Manser Medal / AJ House of the Year

CONTACT:

+44 (0) 7805 785515

studio@tomdowdall.co.uk

Tom Dowdall ETH SIA RIBA ARB

Tom spent an important period of his career at Atelier Peter Zumthor, working on the delivery of The Secular Retreat in Devon. This experience played a crucial role in shaping his understanding of architecture.

Tom initially read Structural Engineering with Architecture at Edinburgh University and graduated with a First Class Honours degree in 2005.

He worked for Adams Kara Taylor (AKT), a leading firm of Consulting Structural Engineers based in London, for two years before continuing to read Architecture at ETH Zürich.

He graduated in 2010 under Professor Josep Lluís Mateo and was awarded the SIA (The Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects) prize for the most outstanding Diploma work of his year. The Diploma was published in tec21, traces and ARCHI architectural journals in Autumn 2010. He was awarded a Travel Scholarship by ETH on completion of his Finals.  His treatise on architectural aspects of Rome is available to view at the ETH Library in Zurich.

In 2015 he completed a MPhil in Real Estate Finance at Cambridge University, to better his understanding of the context of the built environment.

Tom worked for David Chipperfield Architects in London, before returning to Switzerland to work for Peter Zumthor at his atelier in Haldenstein, Graubünden.