Jason Pomeroy - Man Of The World

Eco-architect, Academic and Television Host, the Multifaceted Has a Singular Gift to Connect Worlds Into Visionary Constructs for the Future.

- Adeline Loh

Jason Pomeroy sketches frenetically. With self-assured, rigorous strokes of the pen, he gives shape to futuristic buildings, cities and concepts. Like the signature of a master, these drawings are telling. “I’ve always enjoyed every single line I put down,” says Pomeroy. “That first line may be right or wrong, but it’s still deliberate.” He links his drawing style to his approach to life. “I’ve never had a nervous sketching hand,” he reveals. “I launch myself at everything I do. That passion shows through in my work.”

At 43, Pomeroy is the principal architect and founder of Pomeroy Studios, and a leader in sustainable architecture. Working across the world, he has devised projects that are ahead of their time, from a technological hub in Jakarta dubbed the “Silicon Valley of Indonesia”, to applying research in zero-carbon houses to create affordable housing in the Philippines. He’s also an academic, author, TV host, collector of objet d’art, and, as we discover, a bona fide fashionista, and a one-time purveyor of antique samurai swords.

His multifaceted interests span travel, culture, history, fashion and art, and his singular ability to traverse and connect worlds sets him apart from more single-minded entrepreneurs. You may recognise him as the host of television documentary City Time Traveller, which showcases architectural marvels in Asia. In person, Pomeroy combines self-deprecatory charm with a bookish Encyclopaedia Brown air, equally eloquent discussing carbon-negative homes, as he is philosophising about getting lost in Venice. “Very few cities have that sense of mysticism and delight of one being able to find the way back,” he says. Venetian roads tend to lead back to the centre of Piazza San Marco.