Lever Architecture among recipients of the USDA's Wood Innovations Grant for material innovation and exploration
Portland-based LEVER Architecture is known for its work with material innovation, specifically cross-laminated timber (CLT) and mass timber construction. Founded by Thomas Robinson in 2009, the practice has received much notoriety and was recognized as one of the Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices in 2017. Since then, the practice has developed impressive mass timber projects and restorations such as the Oregon Conservation Center, Redfox Commons, and Albina Yard, their first US building made from domestically produced CLT. Funding from the grant will aid the firm in its collaborative project Forest to Frame: An Architecture of Resilient Forestry. In partnership with Sustainable Northwest and Ecotrust, the project will be a web-based platform for "researching and tracking regional wood products that will meet the building industry's changing needs, as well as a tool to better understand the forestry practices associated with these products," shares the firm. Redfox C...
Portland-based LEVER Architecture is known for its work with material innovation, specifically cross-laminated timber (CLT) and mass timber construction. Founded by Thomas Robinson in 2009, the practice has received much notoriety and was recognized as one of the Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices in 2017. Since then, the practice has developed impressive mass timber projects and restorations such as the Oregon Conservation Center, Redfox Commons, and Albina Yard, their first US building made from domestically produced CLT.
Funding from the grant will aid the firm in its collaborative project Forest to Frame: An Architecture of Resilient Forestry. In partnership with Sustainable Northwest and Ecotrust, the project will be a web-based platform for "researching and tracking regional wood products that will meet the building industry's changing needs, as well as a tool to better understand the forestry practices associated with these products," shares the firm.
