Director

BA (hons), Dip Arch, ARB, RIBA

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TJA began with projects for people adapting to new ways of working and being at home in 2020. Tommy was running things from his living room table and finding work across various budgets and typologies: flat, townhouse, rural home and even a Dutch barge. Home means different things to different people and that’s what Tommy became interested in. 

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Previously Tommy worked for six years at Wright & Wright Architects in London. This involved ambitious library, gallery and museum projects on challenging historic sites, such as Lambeth Palace, St John’s College Oxford and the Museum Of The Home. Creative conservation requires care and confidence and a commitment to the idea that ‘the further back you can look, the further forward you are likely to see’. Tommy founded TJA on this idea.

Tommy graduated from Cardiff School of Art in 2010 and Kingston School of Art in 2014. Education in those schools was about neither the grandiose gestures of masterplanning nor the minutiae of facade detailing - it was first and foremost about people. This awoke an interest in architecture as a social art.​​

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Rebecca Liebermann

Associate

BA (hons), Dip Arch, ARB

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Before joining TJA, Rebecca previously worked at Haworth Tompkins, David Kohn Architects and Spatial Affairs Bureau. She has experience working across a range of different cultural and heritage projects, which include the Theatre Royal, London, Pembroke College, Cambridge and Theatre Clywd, Wales, as well as a variety of small-scale private and commercial projects in London, Los Angeles and Berlin.

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Rebecca is an ARB registered architect and completed her bachelor of Architecture at the University of Sheffield, graduating in 2016, before studying her Masters degree at Aarhus School of Architecture, from which she graduated in 2020. 

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At TJA, Rebecca champions sustainability and has undertaken the AECB CarbonLite course retrofit training course. Rebecca supports Tommy with aspects of practice management such as PR and new business.​​​

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Sam Welham

 

Architect

BA (hons), MArch, ARB, RIBA

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Sam has been an RIBA chartered architect for 10 years, with strong experience leading major schemes in the UK. He was previously employed as an Associate by Purcell Architecture in Oxford, having a particular emphasis on the design and delivery of highly-quality new construction projects for Oxford colleges.

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He previously undertook practice leadership roles in both design and technical delivery for Purcell Architecture, with a strong hands-on skillset managing multi-disciplinary teams. Sam has a subject matter expertise in complex facade design, advanced computational geometry and digital construction.

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Sam graduated with distinction from The Bartlett School of Architecture in 2012, studying MArch Architecture. Positive working relationships are always a priority, with respect, professional rigour and enthusiasm for architecture underpinning his approach to professional practice.

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At TJA Sam has been working on a large project for a Grade II Listed house in Chelsea and also champions the practice’s technical design systems.

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Credentials

 

RIBA conservation registrant

RIBA chartered practice​

ARB registration number: 091318 I

UK company number: 13288725​​

The Green Register, member

Association for Environmentally Conscious Building, member

 

Reference: A phonecall with one of our current or former clients is easy to arrange. A lot of our work comes from existing clients recommending us, or inviting us to explore subsequent projects with them. We believe this is down to the following factors:

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• Personal touch: Tommy drives every project – we have no B-list work.

• Value for money: Being a small business means we can be agile with our time and keep our fees competitive.

• Experienced: Tommy, Rebecca and Sam’s prior experience combines as three decades in which they each worked across a range of ambitious cultural projects on challenging sites, requiring care and confidence.

• Connected: Tommy has a network of talented collaborators, covering structural design, building services design, landscape design, construction, conservation, party wall notices, cost planning, funding, real estate, antiques, fire safety, trees, ecology and so on.