William Toomath

William Toomath

Toomath Senior House
Wool House (Wellington)
Mackay House

Stanley William (Bill) Toomath (born 1925, Lower Hutt, New Zealand) is a Wellington (New Zealand) architect. He was a founding member of the Architectural Group in Auckland in 1946 and is a life member of the Wellington Architectural Centre and a Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Architects. Both the founding of the Group and the Architectural Centre were important factors in New Zealand's modernist architectural history. Toomath studied architecture at the Auckland College of the University of New Zealand, in 1945-49 for BArch and was awarded a UNZ 2-year Travelling Scholarship which took him to Europe in 1951. Adding an early Fulbright Graduate Award in 1952 enabled him to complete a MArch at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where he was taught by I. M. Pei and was a co-student with John Hejduk. He briefly worked with Walter Gropius at the Architects' Collaborative and then with I. M. Pei before returning to New Zealand in 1954.