09.2009_Architecture and Lace Exhibition at Maison de l'Architecture et de la Ville in Euralille, France
Airspace Tokyo is presented in an exhibition featuring 15 international projects. Architecture and Lace explores the contemporary use of pattern morphologies, exo-structure technologies, and new material developments in architecture from around the world.

08-11.2009_Sensate: Bodies and Design Exhibition at SFMOMA
The Undercover Table (SFMOMA permanent collection) is suspended in the air, allowing visitors visual access to items dangling from its underside, in Sensate: Bodies and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Curated by Henry Urbach, the exhibit presents new ways of thinking about the entanglement of human bodies and the designed world.

08-11.2009_Calculation and Substance Exhibition at ACADIA Conference in Chicago
Thom Faulders is invited to create a full-scale installation for the Calculation and Substance exhibition at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition runs concurrently with reForm(): 2009 Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture conference, on October 22-27.

06-09.2009_Winner, New Practices San Francisco Award and Exhibit
New Practices San Francisco is the West Coast premiere of AIA New York's annual portfolio competition. The award is a platform that recognizes emerging architecture firms that have undertaken innovative strategies. The exhibit runs June 4-Sept 19 at the Center for Architecture in New York. A panel discussion with award winners takes place June 5.

03.2009_Thom Faulders Lectures
Thom Faulders lectures on his work at the Stockholm Architects Association in Stockholm, Sweden, titled "Lifelike."

03.2009_Thom Faulders Lectures
Thom Faulders lectures on his work at the American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, titled "Lifelike."

03.2009_GEOtube Selected for [bracket]: On Farming
Faulders Studio's GEOtube: Vertical Salt Deposit Growth System is jury selected for inclusion in [bracket] issue no. 1 titled On Farming. This edition examines the process of farming as being mutable, parametric, and efficient - once understood in terms of agriculture, today information, energy, labor, and landscape can be farmed. Publication forthcoming in 2009.

11.2008_CAMP: Reconsidered Exhibition at 3A Garage in San Francisco
Ten architects are invited to re-envision how a contemporary art museum might be placed in the Presidio of San Francisco. In the CAMP: Reconsidered exhibit, hypothetical proposals are presented to stimulate a productive discussion regarding the placement of contemporary buildings within this de-militarized parkland area.

11_2008_Life, Supersurface 2.0 by Thom Faulders for LINE
Thom Faulders writes an article titled "Life, Supersurface 2.0" for the AIA San Francisco online magazine LINE. Referencing Superstudio, the article examines 'super surfaces' in our contemporary 2.0 world. http://www.linemag.org/_line/

10.2008_Thom Faulders Presents at Material Matters
Thom Faulders presents a paper titled "Airspace Surfaces: responsive mediation through layered redundancy," at Material Matters: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture conference, at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

10.2008_Thom Faulders Lectures
Thom Faulders lectures on his work at Bellevue College in Seattle, WA, titled "Recent Projects."

09.2008_Thom Faulders Lectures
Thom Faulders lectures on his work at Linden Tree in San Francisco titled "Airspace Tokyo."

09.2008_Deform House is Selected for the San Francisco Home Tour
Sponsored by the AIA San Francisco, the Deform House in the Potrero Hill district in San Francisco is included in the 2009 San Francisco Living Home Tour.

07.2008_Second Stage Finalist for Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City
Sponsored by the Architectural League of New York, Thom Faulders collaborates with Raoul Rickenberg / MAPstudios in New York to create a project titled Weeds for their entry to the Situated Technologies competition. The focus of the competition is to produce urban interventions that demonstrate a near future Sentient City.

07_2008_Winner Top 25, Best Private Plots 08
The screen façade for Airspace Tokyo is voted Top 25 projects in the international Private Plots & Public Spots 08 competition in Austria. Sponsored by the Austrian government, the international award fosters and recognizes achievements in the design of private outdoor spaces.

07.2008_246 and Counting Exhibition at SFMOMA
A model of Airspace Tokyo screen is presented in 246 and Counting: Recent Architecture + Design Acquisitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This exhibition, curated by Henry Urbach, departs from SFMOMA's typical exhibition format to describe how the museum collects work acquired by the Architecture and Design Department.

07.2008_333 Summer Workshop at CCA
Thom Faulders teaches a one-week workshop during the CCA 333 summer studio session in San Francisco. The topic for this year's studio is focused on Responsive Architecture, and is run in combination with workshops by Rodolphe el-Khoury and Studio (n-1), both from the University of Toronto.

06.2008_ Glass Production and Talk in Mexico City
Thom Faulders travels to Mexico City to begin work with Phuze, a producer of design objects using new innovations in glass technology. The limited production series provides an opportunity to translate architectural-scale geometries into small-scale objects, and will be distributed worldwide. Thom Faulders gives a lecture titled "Sensate Spaces".

06.2008_Deform House First to Use Fiber Optic Skylight
Deform House in San Francisco is the first building on the U.S. West Coast to install a fiber optic skylight system. Created in Europe, this system allows for natural daylight to be directed through interstitial spaces, using a rooftop bank of sun-tracking lenses that concentrates light onto fiber optic cables. The result is natural light that reaches deep into the building typically reliant on artificial lighting.

05-10.2008_House For All Exhibition at La Triennale Museum in Milan
The Undercover Table.V2 travels to Milan for the House for All (Casa Per Tutti) Exhibition at La Triennale di Milano Museum in Milan, Italy. The exhibition explores new notions for contemporary living, and presents solutions for topics including temporary environments, emergency shelters, self-built homes, or special needs (floating houses, etc.). The exhibit includes full-scale houses by Kengo Kuma, MVRDV, the Red Cross, U-dome, and others.

01-05.2008_Global Brand Company PPR Sponsored CCA Studio
Thom Faulders teaches an Advanced Graduate and Undergraduate architecture studio at CCA, sponsored by the Paris-based luxury brand company PPR. The pilot architecture studio is offered in parallel with Industrial Design studios, and explores the future of shopping in an age of e-commerce, personal electronics, virtual environments, and wired architecture. PPR has developed a portfolio of high-growth global brands, and is presented in 90 countries with brands including PUMA, Gucci, Redcats, Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, and Stella McCartney.

09.2007 - 01.2008_Design contre Design Exhibit Catalog
The Undercover Table is presented in the catalog for Design Contre Design: Deux Siecles de Creations (Design by Design: Two Centuries of Creations), for the exhibition at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. Design contre Design draws parallels and provokes a dialog between iconic design objects, from the Industrial Revolution to the present.