TFG Events & Workshops

Adam Miller

Adam Miller is an independent carpenter and consultant specializing in timber and log framing. His practice ranges from practical, vernacular projects in the New England square-rule tradition to complicated, innovative works that push the boundaries of organic-form scribing. A frequent presenter at conferences of the Timber Framers Guild, Adam has also given presentations to the Carpenter’s Fellowship (UK), Stolpverk Norden (the Scandinavian timber framing association), and the Kominka Collective (Japan).His articles have appeared in Log Building News, The Mortice and Tenon (UK), Northern Woodlands, Scantlings, and Timber Framing, the technical journal of the Timber Framers Guild, for which he has served as editor since 2018. Adam teaches introductory and advanced curricula for the Heartwood School, the Timber Framers Guild Community Building Workshop program, Bard College, and in private instruction. Adam lives in the hills of Vermont, travels widely for interesting projects, and recently cofounded Kominka North America, dedicated to the adaptive reuse of salvaged Japanese timber frames.

Presentation

Disassembly and Reuse: Current Developments in Saving Threatened Japanese Timber Frames
In Conjuction with the Kominka Collective