2024 Timber Framers Guild Conference

Lisa Sauvé

Synecdoche, Principal & Co-Founder

Lisa co-founded Synecdoche in 2009 with Adam Smith. She is a licensed architect in the State of Michigan and an assistant professor of practice at the University of Michigan Taubman College. She holds degrees for Master of Architecture and Master of Science in Conservation from Taubman College at the University of Michigan and a B.S. in Architecture from Lawrence Technological University. Rather than focusing on growing a sole enterprise, her career showcases how broadly architectural expertise can reach from policy to philanthropy, academics, fabrication, investment, development, partnership, and design.

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Presentation

Realizing Mass Timber Projects Through Interdisciplinary Cooperation
This session will share the variables of mass timber off-site manufacturing and on-site assembly in coordination with an evolving series of building codes to celebrate the material and inherent values of wood construction.