Dave Lomax – An architecture of sufficiency – lessons from 20 years designing for mass timber construction

Dave Lomax is an Associate Director at Waugh Thistleton Architects, who are the world’s leading architects in the field of mass timber, shortlisted for the RIBA Stirling Prize in 2018 and selected as Architect’s Journal ‘Architect of the Year’ in 2023/24, having also been awarded the RIBA President’s Medal for Practice Located Research in 2010.

Dave led the design and delivery of the world’s largest CLT building at the time – Dalston Works in east London – and the multi-award winning Black and White building which is the tallest all timber office building in central London.

Alongside practice Dave has taught at the Fay Jones School of Architecture at the University of Arkansas in the US and at the London School of Architecture amongst others. He is chair of the London Borough of Southwark Design Review Panel and lectures widely about the work of the practice.