2008 Europe 40 under 40
ANDREW TODD
GREAT BRITAIN
Andrew Todd is director of Studio Andrew Todd, a Paris-based architecture and theatre consultancy practice. He read English Literature at Cambridge and then took a Master’s in architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He then worked as an assistant of Jean Nouvel on projects such as the Brembo Technocenter (for which he was lead façade designer), and participated in the founding of Atelier Jean Nouvel’s branch office in Rome.
From 2002 to 2006 he worked as auditorium designer on The Young Vic Theatre redevelopment (in association with Haworth Tompkins). The project won the 2007 RIBA National and London Building Awards, and was runner-up for the Stirling Prize.
Other projects have included invited international competitions (The Lausanne Opera –also with Haworth
Tompkins- and the Molde Jazzhuset), as
well as direct commissions (the Marseille Arenc grain silo opera house; the EPFL Conference and Meeting Center and associated campus plan). The practice also undertakes smaller-scale investigations in furniture design, dwelling space and experimental timber construction, and is currently developing a corporate academy project for the Mutuelle du Mans insurance company. He teaches in the Master’s programme at the Quai Malaquais School of Architecture in Paris and lectures regularly abroad.
