ian tod

Ian Tod, now retired, was the founder of the 4 x 4 talks ‘Making Places’ 2001 – 2012.

He led a Leeds based practice from 1977 to 2012, which oversaw projects such as Hunslet Housing Cooperative, Design Innovation Centre, Yorkshire Dance Centre, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Park Lane College and College of Music phase two to name a few.

Ian was also joint curator and designer of the William Morris Today Exhibition at the ICA in 1984, and joint author, with Michael Wheeler of an illustrated history of utopian ideas in 1977.