Tom joined the firm in 2018 as Director of Space Strategies. Prior to Payette, he spent eight years at Sasaki where he led the science and technology practice and divided his time between architecture and master planning. Tom enhances the firm’s engagement with clients through interactive software tools that unleash new design considerations:
“If we can better estimate demand, understand use patterns and figure out the social and cultural aspects to our clients, we have more inputs with which to be creative. These tools act as a mirror for clients and ourselves to agree on an objective picture of reality and inform decisions that make architecture resonate more deeply.”
EDUCATION
B. Arch. with Honors, 2000, the University of Texas at Austin
FEATURED PROJECTS
Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering Master Plan
Pennsylvania State University, College of Engineering West 2 Engineering Building
TEACHING & LECTURES
“Research Space Optimization,” Tradeline Research Facilities, 2017
“Space Sleuths: A Systems Approach to Placemaking,” Tradeline Academic Medicine & Health Sciences, 2016