TOM DI SANTO, ARCHITECT

Tom Di Santo is a partner in M:OME and a Professor in the Architecture Department at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, where he teaches design, theory, representation and the implementation of sustainable principles. He achieved his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, and earned a Master of Architecture degree (M.Arch II) from L'Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-La Defense. His interests range from family (wife Eva and children Trinity and Nico) to watercolours, from poetry to music, from furniture to design-build, from graphic design to fine art and film, and from photography to travel.

Our mission at M:OME is simple: create modern design that adds beauty to life, belongs to its climate and region, sustains itself and its owners while supporting community and environment alike. For more information, please see our original site: www.mome.org/original.

M:OME was born out of the need to create.

M:OME was born out of the acceptance that good design must happen at every level from minutia to macro-spection.

M:OME was born out of the notion that all good design must strive for greater eco-literacy.

We believe that sustainability is a baseline, a minimum requirement, a sieve through which all works must pass to be considered architecture. We believe that a fourth ideal, advantageous to the environment, be added to the Vitruvian triad of firmness, commodity and delight, such that Sustainability be considered in the larger context of a project's conceptual integration.

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