Tom Lewith is a chartered architect and co-founder of New-works. He co-founded and ran TDO between 2010 and 2024. In 2020 he was named in The Architects’ Journal 40 under 40. Innovative built work with MMC includes FAB house for Urban Splash and the Low Line arches for The Low Line Partners. Both featured in NLA’s ‘Factory Made Housing’ and ‘Office Revolution’ papers, the RIBA’s Modular Housing Handbook, ‘Future Homes’ by Avi Friedman, and Hoxton Mini Press’s ‘The Sustainable City’. Tom is passionate about the potential applications of innovative MMC and the lessons it offers about the profession’s need for a move towards specialism and collaboration.