Thomas Gluck was born in New York City and grew up immersed in architecture. His father, Peter Gluck, graduated from Yale in 1962 and founded the practice now known as GLUCK+ in 1972. As a child, Tom watched his father build models out of basswood and cardboard.
His mother taught modern Japanese history at Columbia University, and the family lived in Tokyo for periods during his childhood. At sixteen, through a connection his father had made, Tom apprenticed for a summer under a master Miyadaiku, a traditional Japanese tea house builder recognized as a living national treasure, gaining an early appreciation for craft and natural materials.
Tom began college studying biochemistry, then chemistry, then biology, before leaving the sciences. A dislocated shoulder redirected him toward theater, where he designed and built sets for productions at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge. He also spent two summers building a guest house with his father in the Catskills before applying to architecture school.
He earned his Master of Architecture from Yale University, then worked at Calis Shortridge Architects in Los Angeles before joining Herzog and de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland, on the Walker Art Center expansion in Minneapolis from early design through construction and opening.
In 2005, Tom returned to New York and joined GLUCK+, overseeing design and construction on projects including the East Harlem School, a rental building in Philadelphia, the Cary Leeds Center for Tennis and Learning, City Squash, and a charter school in Washington Heights. The firm practices Architect Led Design Build, with architects who both design and manage construction of their projects.
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