TOM EMERSON AND STEPHANIE MACDONALD COFOUNDED 6A ARCHITECTS IN 2001 AFTER HAVING FIRST MET AT THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART. THEIR FIRST PROJECT WAS THE DESIGN OF A SMALL RETAIL SPACE FOR A MULTI-BRAND FLAGSHIP STORE ON SAVILE ROW AND, THROUGHOUT THE NOW 17 YEARS OF THEIR PRACTICE, THE STUDIO’S ARCHITECTURAL CONTRIBUTES TO LONDON’S ART AND CULTURAL SCENE HAVE BEEN INCREDIBLY VIBRANT. WHAT SHAPES AND DIFFERENTIATES THE IDENTITY OF THEIR STUDIO FROM OTHER PRACTICES IS THEIR WORKS OF EXHIBITION AND SPATIAL DESIGN FOR GALLERIES AND THE RADICAL APPROACH THEY TAKE TOWARD HISTORY AND CONVERSATION, WORKING DIRECTLY WITH MATERIALS SO AS TO CREATE AS LITTLE INTERPRETATION AS POSSIBLE. THEIR WORKS HAVE RECEIVED COUNTLESS PROMINENT AWARDS RANGING FROM THE AJ/CORUS 40 UNDER 40 WINNER IN 2005 TO THE RIBA AWARD WHICH THEY HAVE WON CONSECUTIVELY SINCE 2011. THEY WERE FURTHER NOMINATED FOR THE MIES VAN DE ROHE AWARD IN 2011, 2013 AND 2015 WHILE THE BUILDING THEY DESIGNED FOR GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHER, JUERGEN TELLER WAS SHORTLISTED FOR 2017’S STIRLING PRIZE. APART FROM THEIR ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE, TOM EMERSON IS ALSO CURRENTLY WORKING AS AN ARCHITECTURE AT ETH ZÜRICH AND HAS BEEN INVITED TO TEACH AT RENOWNED INSTITUTIONS. EMERSON IS THE SECOND ARCHITECT TO EVER RECEIVE THE CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER PRIZE, A LITERARY PRIZE COMMEMORATING THE SWISS POER CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER THAT HAS BEEN AWARDED ANNUALLY SINCE 1938.