Thomas M. Anglewicz, FAIA, a prominent architect who helped shape the design framework for San Diego’s downtown redevelopment through various community organizations, has joined California-based HMC Architects as a principal in charge.

“Tom Anglewicz comes to HMC as an established and respected architect in the San Diego community.  His experience and rationale for the value and practice of architecture balances well with his passion for design and planning,” said David Rova, HMC’s San Diego managing principal and design director, adding, “We are very excited and pleased to have Tom join our leadership in the San Diego office.”

Prior to joining HMC, Anglewicz was urban studio director of Austin Veum Robbins Partners’ San Diego office, where he focused on mixed-use and high-density residential projects. He was previously a principal with the MW Steele Group, where he provided firm leadership for public, institutional and urban design projects.

Anglewicz has been a vocal advocate for the creative redevelopment of San Diego’s downtown core and waterfront lands since the early 1990s through his extensive involvement with the Downtown San Diego Partnership and other community organizations. He was a key member of the planning and design team responsible for the original North Embarcadero Visionary Plan in 1997 and 1998, helping to formulate guidelines that have directed the plan’s development to this day.

Highly active in San Diego community organizations, Anglewicz is currently co-chair of the Downtown San Diego Partnership’s Urban Design Committee, a trustee of the San Diego Historical Society, and an institutional board member of the NewSchool of Architecture and Design. He has previously served on citizens advisory and liaison committees for the expansion of the San Diego Zoo, Lindbergh Field, and the South Embarcadero Master Plan.

Anglewicz is also heavily involved in professional architecture associations. He is a recent board member of the American Institute of Architects California Council (AIACC) where he served as vice president of communications and public affairs.  He is presently a regent of the California Architectural Foundation and past president of both the San Diego Architectural Foundation and AIA’s San Diego Chapter. He is a member of the San Diego Council of Design Professionals and a member of the organizing committee for the Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture.  Anglewicz was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in June 2006, based on his service to the community and to the architecture profession.

He has managed the design of numerous civic and mixed-use projects, including: 

• Museum Towers, a twin-tower high-rise residential and mixed-use urban development in Phoenix, Arizona
• California Western School of Law Library in downtown San Diego
• The expansion and renovation of Coronado Public Library, restoring the original 1915 Spreckels Library, while reorganizing the functional components within the library and expanding its floor area by 50 percent
• A new community library for the City of La Quinta, designed as part of its master-planned Civic Center complex
• The Centrum, a 450,000-SF high-rise, office, retail and residential condominium project in the Oak Lawn community, near downtown Dallas, Texas
• Premier Place, a 400,000-SF high-rise, multi-tenant office building on Central Expressway, north of downtown Dallas

Anglewicz holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Detroit School of Architecture, where he later taught design and studio courses, as well as an Honorary Master of Architecture from the NewSchool of Architecture and Design in San Diego.