Susan Jones

About

Susan Jones is an architect and founder of Seattle-based atelierjones. The firm is driving new pathways within architecture, advancing new lower-carbon, mass timber systems by designing and building prototypes at multiple scales, girded by her leadership in multiple international collaborations to create change at scale and insure rigor on multiple levels. A solely woman-owned architectural firm, atelierjones, designs prefabricated mass timber urban infill residential projects, including a 126-unit, 8-story mass timber middle-income residential building which specifically advances the new Type IV-C Tall Wood building codes and correlative design detailing that Susan helped craft and guide through the ICC Code regulatory processes. Her prolific work over the last nine years to advance and restructure the carbon-intensive construction industry towards lower-carbon materials is an exemplary example for the role that architects can play to innovate at all scales to urgently lower our carbon footprint.

Susan earned her B.A from Stanford in Philosophy, and her M.Arch from the Harvard GSD. She is licensed in multiple states, has been a visiting design critic at numerous universities, and is Affiliate Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Washington. She was made a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2010. In 2023, she received the AIA Seattle gold medal, and in October of 2024, was one of five recipients to receive Architectural Record's Women in Architecture award.