Speaker Spotlight: 

Susan Jones, FAIA, is founder of Seattle-based architectural firm, atelierjones. Her award-winning, all-woman owned and woman-led firm drives new lower-carbon pathways within architecture and construction at scale and is a national leader in mass timber design. She published one of the first books on Mass Timber in 2017 – Mass Timber: Design and Research. A third-generation citizen of the Pacific Northwest, Susan grew up in Bellingham, Washington, and has raised her family in Seattle. Susan earned her B.A from Stanford in Philosophy, and her M.Arch from the Harvard GSD. She was awarded the AIASeattle Gold Medal and the Architectural Record Women in Architecture Award in 2024 and is a Fellow of the AIA. She lives in a mass timber home that she designed and has designed many mass timber buildings.