Tony Rigg

Tony Rigg studied architecture in Manchester & London, and worked in the UK before moving to Israel in 1975. In 1979 he started a private architectural practice in Jerusalem,  “Lahav Rigg Architects & Town Planners”, carrying out residential, public, commercial, industrial & town planning projects, with an emphasis on climatic and sustainable design.  

The practice won many competitions and awards, most notably for the Government Administration Centre in Beer Sheva, a large,  mixed-use complex, with regional government & private offices, a major health fund clinic, and a shopping centre.

In 2007 he moved to Dublin Ireland for 5 years, to work with Kavanagh Tuite Architects as senior project architect on several  large, ‘green’ projects, including the UCD Roebuck Castle Student Residence, which received the Irish Architects Institute 2011 Award for “Best Sustainable Project of the Year”, and achieved European “Passive House Standard” certification.

While working mainly on large projects, over the years he has maintained an involvement in small residential work, including the first ‘passive solar’ house in Israel, and many special interior redesigns and renovations.

Tony served as Co-Director of the UIA (Int. Union of Architects) Work Programme on Architecture & Energy from 1988 to 2002. He was UIA Delegate to the UN Earth Summit in Rio, 1992, and part of the organizing team for the UIA/AIA Congress in Chicago, 1993, conceived as “Rio for the Architects”;  he served as UIA Delegate to the UN Conference on Social Development, Copenhagen 1993, and to the UN Habitat II Prep-Comm Conference, Nairobi 1995.

He has written many papers in the field of environmental design, including for several PLEA Conferences, from Mexico City 1994 to Dublin 2008 (for which he was also part of the technical review team). He was a co-author of the "UIA Chicago Declaration" in 1993.