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Tom Verebes, (2008). AADRL Documents 2: DRL TEN, A Design Research Compendium. (Obuchi, Y (Pavilion)., Schumacher, P., Spyropoulos, T. (Exhibitions), Verebes, T. (Book), Eds.). London: AA Publications. / 70,000 words authored text by Tom Verebes / Prologue Texts: Yusuke Obuchi, Patrik Schumacher, Theodore Spyropoulos, Tom Verebes / Essays by: Mark Bury, Christopher Hight, Jesse Reiser, Brett Steele / Interviews by Tom Verebes with: Andrew Benjamin, Mark Cousins, Zaha Hadid, Jeffrey Kipnis / Design projects by Staff (including 10 projects by OCEAN D) / 104 Student design projects by 396 students in the first 10 graduating cohorts.
Masterplanning the Adaptive City
Tom Verebes (2013). Masterplanning the Adaptive City: Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-first Century, New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis.
A 368-page edited and authored book, including essays, projects, and interviews.
Mass Customised Cities
Tom Verebes (2015). AD,
Shanghai Ten Folio
Tom Verebes (2017). Shanghai Ten Folio, Tom Verebes, (Ed.), New York, Shenzhen: ORO Editions. London: AA Publications.
A book published as the conclusion of ten yearly cycles of the AA’s Shanghai Summer School, a program founded by Tom Verebes in 2007, and directed for 12 years. A corresponding exhibition featured work by 36 former and current tutors who had taught in the program, and 24 visitors to the program, and a major 2-day symposium event, hosted at the Shanghai Study Centre, The University of Hong Kong, Shanghai.
Beyond the Envelope: 21 Pioneering Buildings of the 21st Century
21 Interviews with their Architects (ORO, 2024). Contents includes transcribed interviews with 21 architects, professional photos, and diagrammatic analyses of these projects by students in Tom Verebes’ graduate seminar in the final year of the M.Arch program, SoAD-NYIT, in 2021, 2022, and 2023. The architects’ presentations formed part of the public program at NYIT in 2022 and 2023, followed by a student-led interview.
The Urbanism Reader: Design Technology, Culture, and the Future of Cities (Bloomsbury, 2025)
Co-authored and co-edited with Stefan Al, this selection of 45 excerpts of readings grouped into ten thematic chapters, foregrounds design as an instrument for change in cities. This reader examines the outcomes and challenges of recent design theories, design methods, and technologies in the built urban environment, as a roadmap for the past, present, and future of global urbanism.
Digital and Smart City Design team leader: Tom Verebes; Designer: Aneesa Warrich; Assistant: Gong Lei
This first phase invited competition entry clustered around the East Hangzhou High Speed Train Station in the outskirts of Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China, focused on highlighting the potential multiplicity of urban characteristics and identities. A diversity of urban patterns, specified to each thematic district outlined in the competition documents, was sought. We applied our methodology of rich two-dimensional patterns generated from the text-based and image-based Generative AI platform, Midjourney, and then selected patterns to be modelled in three dimensions. As a first phase design proposal, we presented this method for the modelling of composite, multi-dimensional urban patterns having distinctly Chinese characteristics. The interactive digital models were developed to modulate building heights, footprints, and overall density, expressing a design approach to creating an exciting and coherent urban order. Presented is the visualization of urban spaces for digital industries, clusters of technology companies, and dense social spaces exemplified by a human scale and street vitality.
Xiangmi Park, Shenzhen, China, 2014
International Competition
Role: Tom Verebes (Design Direction); Andrew Haas (designer)
Joint Venture with SED Landscape Architects, Shenzhen, China (William Huang, Grace Gu)
Organisers: Shenzhen Civic Government
Umekita Second Development Area, Osaka Station, Osaka, Japan, 2013
International Invited Limited Design Competition: OCEAN CN Invited to first stage by Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma
Yan Jiao Hua Run 4D City Masterplan, Hubei Province, China, 2011-2012
Client: CR Corporation, China State Developers
Joint Venture: dotA (Beijing) & OCEAN CN (Hong Kong)
dotA: Gao Yan, Duo Ning, Chiang Qiang, Wang Xin, Crystal Yiu
OCEAN CN: Tom Verebes, Nathan Melenbrink
FUTUREPort, 2011-2012
Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi City Biennale 2011
Tom Verebes (Principal Investigator); Kristof Crolla, GAO Yan, Christian Lange; (Co-Investigators); Praneet Verma (Research Assistant)
Liantang /Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point Terminal Building, Shenzhen, China, 2011 Joint Venture: dotA (Beijing), HKPDA (Hong Kong), OCEAN CN (Hong Kong) dotA: Gao Yan, Duo Ning, Chang Qiang, Wang Xin, Crystal Yiu HKPDA: Sam Cho, Yang Wang, Ben Dai, Jaenes Bong OCEAN CN: Tom Verebes, Eric Liu
Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge – Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facility, Hong Kong, 2010
OCEAN CN: Tom Verebes, Gao Yan, Rochana Chaugule, Matei Denes, Shaju Nanukuttan, Duo Ning, Praneet Verma
Parametric Pearl River Delta, 2009-2010
Exhibition: Hong Kong-Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale 2009
Venue: West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR
Dates: 3 December 2009 鈥� 27 February, 2010
Palisades Glacier Mountain Hut, California, USA, 2004
OCEAN D: Tom Verebes, Robert Elfer, Kevin Cespedes, Wade Stevens, Chris Mulvey, Boyan Tvzetkov,
Abraham Gordon, Jonathan Kan
Engineers: B consultants: Tom Barker, Andrew Siddall, Tim Sutcliffe
Warner House, London, 2004
Commission: Interior Penthouse Loft Conversion
Client: Angela Yeats
Budget ~150K GBP ($270K USD)
OCEAN D: Tom Verebes, Aaron Casey, Eva Krane, Yael Harel-Gilad
Ski Chalet Interior, Chamonix, France, 2003-2007
Client: Gustavo Mana
OCEAN D: London Tom Verebes, Yael Harel-Gilad, Robert Neumayr, Abraham Gordon, Boyan Tzvetkov, Meiko Nibashima, Jay Chayhun, Lionel Sacks-Monsky, Eva Krane
Boston/New York: Robert Elfer, Kevin Cespedes, Wade Stevens
b-consultants, London: Tom Barker
GP Structures, Sallanches, France: Michel Garovo
Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2001
OCEAN D: Felix Robbins, Tom Verebes, George L. Legendre, Cynthia Morales, Sarah Quinn, Wade Stevens, Robert Elfer, Kevin Cespedes
Tumbleweed, London, 2000
Commissioned by Archilab; Purchased by Fonds R茅gional d’Architecture Contemporaines (FRAC)
OCEAN UK: Nate Kolbe, Tom Verebes
Adams Kara Taylor Consulting Engineers, Hanif Kara
Jeil’s Hospital For Women, Seoul, Korea, 1996-1997
Client: Dr. Sunghil Roh