About Us

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Martin-Thomsen Architecture PLLC (established in 2020) and TCM Studio (established in 2010), are both based in New York and Chicago, and founded by T. Camille Martin-Thomsen, AIA, NCARB, NOMA. Both studios are 100% owned by an African American woman and currently pending M/WBE status. 

The studio’s work and interests span across scale and typology and focus on developing concrete projects that can help push our understanding of how places and spaces can improve people's quality of life. Equity, sustainability and aesthetics are at the core of what the studio believes should be central. Both studios draw on our relationships with local artisans, designers, and craftspeople to create forward-thinking, culturally relevant projects in New York and abroad.

Before founding the TCM Studio, Camille worked for the international powerhouse firm, Cannon Design on multi-million-dollar institutional projects as well as several other respected New York architecture studios focusing on institutional and commercial projects. Camille was a senior designer at Studio Sofield renowned for designing for retailers like Tom Ford, and The Gap and ultra-high-end residential projects published in Architectural Digest and Elle Decor. 

Camille combines her affinity for public work and background in large scale institutional projects with a talent and intuition for fine detailing and craft cultivated while working on residential projects.  She leverages that expertise in design projects of varying scale and typology. The studio also consults with teams of designers, architects and engineers on how to best navigate Landmarks, codes and city agencies to realize projects efficiently. Camille has  25 years of experience in liaising with various public organizations and institutions both in the capacity of a designer and scholar.

Camille’s passion for sustainable, local, culturally contextual design was developed while studying architecture in Finland and Argentina and working with the town council of Dudelange, Luxembourg on a public art installation for the Kosovar refugee population. She has served on Architecture for Humanity’s Steering Committee and co-authored a national design charrette in the Cincinnati, Ohio Over-the-Rhine neighborhood commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Freedom Summer 1964 voter registration drive.  

Camille is currently the Dean of Faculty and VP of Academic Affairs at the world-renowned School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is a Professor in the Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects Department. Her focus is in inclusive pedagogy and equitable education spaces through pedagogy and built environments.  

In Martin-Thomsen Architecture Camille is collaborating with her partner in life, Henning Martin-Thomsen, Intl. Assoc. AIA, Architect MAA (Denmark) and the Director of Operations and Communication of Martin-Thomsen Architecture. 

Henning brings his extensive background in urban design, landscape architecture, community involvement, communication, education, sustainability, and leadership to the studio. Henning holds degrees in both political science and architecture and is a Master of Management Development from the Copenhagen Business School. Most recently Henning has earned the International Education Diversity & Inclusion Certificate from US based Diversity Abroad.

He has worked as Culture & Communications Manager and Senior Consultant for the world-renowned urban design consultancy, Gehl Architects, based out of Copenhagen. During his time with Gehl, Henning was involved in urban projects in London (UK), Bucharest (Romania), Gdynia (Poland), as well as in capacity building in Chennai (India) together with the Institute for Transport and Development Policy (ITDP). 

He has served as the CEO of the Architects Association of Denmark (Danish equivalent to the AIA in the US) and also worked as Head of Division for Realdania, a self-endowed philanthropic association with close to 165.000 members working for the common good by supporting projects in the built environment all over Denmark. Working as Head of Division at DAC, the Danish Architecture Center, Henning was responsible for establishing Sustainable Cities, a knowledge-sharing platform aimed at both public and private stakeholders working to improve cities and urban environments around Denmark and the World.

Throughout his career, Henning has published and lectured extensively on architecture, architectural policies, cities and urban policies in both Europe and the US. He has served on the World Future Council, Commission on Cities and Climate Change in Hamburg (Germany), and as a Thought Leader for CLEAR Village Foundation, based in London (UK).

Henning served for 10 years as the Program Director for Architecture and Design of DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia, a Copenhagen-based study abroad  institution serving upper-division undergraduate students from American colleges and universities. Before taking on that role, he served for 15 years as a part-time faculty at DIS teaching both architecture and urban design studio and lecture-based courses on Scandinavian design, urban design theories, and Danish architectural history.

Henning is currently a lecturer in the Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects Department at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he teaches architecture and interior architecture to graduate students in the M. Arch Program.