Ian Tod
Architecture Judge | 2009
Ian Tod is an architect and designer with 30 years experience. His work includes arts, historic buildings, community, business, health, master-planning and residential projects, as well as exhibition design. Many projects have won awards. Recent projects include public domain design for Holbeck Urban Village and the new Civic and Mandela Square in Barnsley.
Ian Tod founded and curates 4x4 Making Places which has been delivering an annual forum in Leeds since 2001. Publications include a monograph on William Morris (Forum), contributions to The City in Utopia (Cooper Hewitt Museum) and a history of utopian ideas (Orbis). Education involvement includes lectures at universities in the UK and Europe and spells at Hull, Cheltenham and UCL schools of architecture.
Ian is a Renaissance Advocate for Yorkshire Forward and serves on Design Review Panels for Beam and Arc. He now combines design work through Ian Tod and Company Ltd with development work with Eido Ltd, and is involved in several live arts, regeneration and community development projects.