Thomas Weil is a contemporary artist, designer, architect, curator and author. He was born in Bavaria (Germany) in 1944 and grew up in four families of artistst’ and today lives in Friedberg, Bavaria. Thomas studied architecture at the Technical University of Munich (1964 – 70) and until 1996 worked as an architect. Since 1974, he increasingly focused on geometric ornamentation in art, architecture and design, and visited Al-Andalus (Moorish Spain), Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Turkey to study ornament. Thomas designed several interiors in Munich, the Ismaili Center in London, and a fire brigade station in Iran. In 1985, Thomas taught Islamic Ornament at Heluan Academy in Cairo, Egypt, where he befriended architect Hassan Fathy. Since 1996, he works as a free-lance artist in architecture also with several exhibitions in museums. Together with his wife Claudia Weil he published ‚Ornament in Architecture, Art and Design‘, in 2004 (Callwey Verlag Munich) and ‚Geometric Ornament‘ (Schiffer Publishing Ltd, USA). 2007-2017, Thomas had a teaching position on ornamental art at Design Academy in Munich. When hearing about finds made at excavations in Cape Town, South Africa, he started a manuscript about geometric, minimal and floral ornament. Since 2017, Thomas has been working with book-designer Boah Kim on his latest book ‚New Grammar of Ornament’ which has been published by publisher Lars Müller, Zürich, Switzerland, in 2021.