T+E+A+M is an architecture practice led by Thom Moran + Ellie Abrons + Adam Fure + Meredith Miller.
Thom Moran joined the University of Michigan’s Taubman College as the 2009 – 2010 Muschenheim Fellow and is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture. Thom holds a Master of Architecture from Yale and a BS in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His work has been exhibited at the Center for Architecture, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Venice Biennale (2012 and 2016). He received the 2015 Architectural League Prize and was one of Architectural Record’s Firms to Watch. Thom also co-founded Thing Thing, a Detroit-based design collaborative that uses novel techniques to make objects and furniture.
thom@tpluseplusaplusm.usEllie Abrons is a licensed architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she was the A. Alfred Taubman Fellow in 2009 – 2010. Ellie received her Masters of Architecture from the University of California Los Angeles where she graduated with distinction and received the AIA Certificate of Merit. She received her BA in art history and gender studies from New York University and has a certificate in graphic and digital design from Parsons School of Design. Ellie has received several fellowships including a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany and her work has been exhibited at the 2012 and 2016 Venice Biennales, Storefront for Art and Architecture, A+D Gallery, and the Architectural Association. From 2010 to 2015 she led the design practice EADO.
ellie@tpluseplusaplusm.usAdam Fure is an architectural designer and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Adam received his Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles where he graduated with distinction and was awarded the Alpha Rho Chi medal. He holds a BS in architecture from the University of Michigan. His work has been exhibited at the 2012 and 2016 Venice Biennales, the Beijing Biennale, The New School in New York, the A+D Gallery in Los Angeles, the AA in London, and the Grand Rapids Museum of Art. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the 2014 Architectural League Prize and a residency fellowship at the Akademie Schloss Solitude. Adam is a co-founder of the Possible Mediums project. From 2010 to 2015, he led the design practice SIFT Studio.
adam@tpluseplusaplusm.usMeredith Miller is a licensed architect and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she was an A. Alfred Taubman Fellow in 2009 – 2010. She received her Masters of Architecture from Princeton University and holds a BS in architecture from the University of Virginia. Her work has been exhibited at the 2012 and 2016 Venice Biennales, Van Alen Institute, Storefront for Art and Architecture, and Boston Society of Architects. Her writing has been featured in Journal of Architecture Education, Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, and Political Economy, MONU, Pidgin, Thresholds, and ARPA Journal. Meredith has received research support from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the American Institute of Architects. Meredith led the design practices Mer-Mer (2013-2015) and MILLIGRAM-office (2009-2014).
meredith@tpluseplusaplusm.usT+E+A+M featured in the January issue of Wallpaper* magazine
Northwood ADU published in Dwell+
Adam and Thom talk with Andrew Holder and Michael Hays and students in their Inscriptions course at the GSD.
Ellie and Thom give a lecture to studio diazmoreno & garciagrinda at die Angewandte in Vienna
T+E+A+M commissioned to design two single-family homes to fit within the historic Indian Village neighborhood of Detroit.
T+E+A+M commissioned to design Sonic Hub, a new space for experimental music and sound at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.
T+E+A+M collaborates with the editors of RM1000 to publish “Fragments,” a digital traveling exhibition and mini studio visit that uses AR to let users place digital fragments of our work in their spaces.
Adam and Ellie join Mark Foster Gage’s course at Yale School of Architecture, “Emerging Schools of Thought.” to discuss T+E+A+M’s body of work and approach to design.
T+E+A+M invited to submit to international competition to design an exhibition pavilion in Kiev.
Design development is complete for retail building renovation project in Detroit.
4 Over 4, our first multi-family project in Detroit, is on track to break ground this summer.
T+E+A+M finishes schematic design on residential renovation and addition in St. Petersburg, FL.
Ellie joins Penn Architecture remotely to give a lecture.
Ellie and Meredith give a remote lecture for Cooper Union School of Architecture.
Welcome to the T+E+A+M, Hannah Perrino and Gery Vargas, two full-time project designers!
T+E+A+M commissioned to design interior for high-concept footwear and clothing retailer with space for its community outreach program.
T+E+A+M commissioned to readapt retail building with a new community-focused purpose in Detroit
T+E+A+M completes schematic design for first phase of Detroit housing development.
Document journal publishes images and text from a vist to T+E+A+M’s studio.
T+E+A+M shares some “Material Samples” for Fulfilled, an exhibition curated by Ashely Bigham at the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University.
An interview with Thom and Meredith by Peter Maffei and Sanat Dangol is published by Architects Newspaper, part of the Building Practice series by Molly Hunker and Kyle Miller with their students at Syracuse Architecture.
Ellie writes “Legendary Acts,” an essay published in MAS Context.
T+E+A+M commissioned to design environmentally progressive modular housing development in Detroit
T+E+A+M breaks ground on Ann Arbor ADU, expected completion in 2021
T+E+A+M principals Ellie Abrons and Adam Fure building Ann Arbor’s first ADU at their personal home
Ellie contributes an essay to Authorship: Discourse, A Series on Architecture.
Ellie writes the Foreward for Galo Canizares’ new book, Digital Fabrications: Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet.
Ellie and Adam are part of a multi-disciplinary team organizing the conference Living A Digital Life: Objects, Environments, Power.
Adam publishes and essay titled “Aesthetics Post Digital” in Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy.
Ellie particpates in Family Dinner at Harvard GSD.
Ellie and Adam co-moderate a session with McLain Clutter, entitled “Becoming Digital,” at the ACSA 107th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh.
Ellie goes to SCI-Arc for the Graduate Thesis Lab review and symposium.
Meredith presents at the Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium on Waste at Cornell AAP.
Adam and Ellie particpate in Pratt Sessions 13 with Freeland Buck.
Adam and Ellie lecture at Kent State University.
T+E+A+M opens a new exhibition at Kent State University titled “Models on View.”
Ellie goes to Harvard GSD for Thesis reviews.
T+E+A+M is one of the participants in Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II.
T+E+A+M is interviewed in See/Saw, the student-run publication of the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.
T+E+A+M begins teaching a graduate visiting studio at The University of Hong Kong.
T+E+A+M wins an Honorable Mention for New Materials in the AN Best of Design Awards for Clastic Order.
Adam goes to the University of Toronto for reviews.
Adam and Ellie particpate in “The Persistence of Material,” a 2-day interdisciplinary seminar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
Ellie lectures at Texas A&M University.
T+E+A+M particpates in the 44 Low Resolution Houses Symposium at Princeton School of Architecture.
Ellie particpates in “Conversations: ‘On Medium'” with Michael Meredith and Kyle Miller at Syracuse University.
Meredith and Thom’s plastic research featured at Celebrate Invention at University of Michigan.
T+E+A+M is selected as a finalist to exhibit in the Pavilion Exhibit at Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum as part of the ACSA Fall conference.
Thom presents his paper, “Laughing Matter: Architecture and Physical Comedy” at the ACSA Fall conference, held at The University of Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Ellie and Adam present their paper, “Computer Worlds” at the ACSA Fall conference, held at The University of Milwaukee Wisconsin.
Meredith and Thom present “Post Rock: From Pollution to Product” at the Building and Material Reuse Association’s 2018 DeCon Conference.
Adam and fellow editors Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, and Kyle Miller publish Possible Mediums with ACTAR.
Adam participates in a symposium at Yale in conjunction with the exhibition, Adjacencies.
T+E+A+M exhibits A Range Life in 44 Low Resolution Houses, an exhibition at Princeton School of Architecture curated by Michael Meredith.
T+E+A+M exhibits Additional Address in Adjacencies, an exhibition at Yale School of Architecture curated by Nate Hume.
T+E+A+M exhibits Living Picture in Rings: Ragdale Foundation Competition Entires, an exhibition at The Center for Architecture and Design curated by Galo Canizares, Stephanie Sang Delgado, and Jonathan Rieke.
The Force of Things reviewed by The New York Times.
The Force of Things reviewed by National Sawdust.
The Force of Things reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
The Force of Things is published in New York Magazine.
Lincoln Center presents The Force of Things as part of it’s “Mostly Mozart” summer festival.
T+E+A+M exhibits “Space Saver” in 24x24x24, an exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture curated by Benjamin Cadena, Chris & Dominique Leong, Koray Duman, Miriam Peterson & Nathan Rich, and Ryan Brooke Thomas.
T+E+A+M presents “Reassembly” at New Instrumentalties, the 2018 ACSA International Conference in Madrid.
Ellie contributes an essay, “Mediation, More or Less,” to the exhibition catalogue for Plots, Print, Projections at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Ellie contributes thoughts on criticism for The Architect’s Newspaper article, “How has the internet changed architecture criticism?”
Adam’s Op-ed “What does it really mean to be “post-digital” in architecture and beyond” is published in The Architect’s Newspaper.
T+E+A+M is featured in AN Interiors.
Ellie serves on the Super Jury at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s School of Architecture.
Adam and Ellie go to Pratt School of Architecture for final reviews.
Adam and Ellie go to Penn Design for final reviews.
Jordan Hicks offers “Observations on T+E+A+M’s Ghostbox” in Avery Shorts
Adam goes to Syracuse for final reviews.
T+E+A+M exhibits “Tempietto on Mylar” in Tempietto Exemplum, an exhibition at Yale School of Architecture curated by Amanda Iglesias and Spencer Fried.
T+E+A+M is selected as a finalist in “Staging Construction,” a call for proposals by Materials & Applications for projects that explore construction as both a practice and a performance
Ellie serves on the jury for Princeton School of Architecture’s thesis reviews.
Meredith lectures at Princeton’s School of Architecture.
T+E+A+M is on the jury for the 6th annual Ragdale Ring competition.
T+E+A+M presents Clastic Order at the 106th ACSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.
T+E+A+M lectures at Texas Tech University College of Architecture.
Ellie presents a paper at NCBDS (National Conference on the Beginning Design Student) in Cincinatti.
Thom lectures about alternative modes of practice at the University of Toronto.
T+E+A+M lectures at Tulane School of Architecture.
T+E+A+M leads Tex_Obj, a student workshop at Tulane School of Architecture.
Members of T+E+A+M organize and participate in the Becoming Digital conference.
T+E+A+M lectures at Columbia University’s GSAPP with a response by Ada Tolla.
T+E+A+M exhibits numerous projects in Inscriptions: Architecture Before Speech, an exhibition at Harvard GSD curated by K. Michael Hays and Andrew Holder.
Living Picture wins Architect’s Newspaper “Best of Design Award for Temporary Installation”
“The Force of Things” named a “notable performance of 2017” by The New Yorker.
Ellie participates in “Speculation In, On, and Around,” a colloquium at Princeton’s School of Architecture with Beatriz Colomina, Michael Meredith, and Mark Wigley, moderated by Michaela Friedberg
T+E+A+M featured in PROPS 22 “It’s a Flat Flat World”
Clastic Order reveiwed in Architect Magazine’s article, “How Material Experimentation Can Go Well and Go Wrong”
Ellie’s essay “For Real” published in Log 41
Thom particpates in Making Room for Action as part of Performa 17
Meredith profiled in Spanish newspaper El Dia
“The Force of Things” is reviewed in The New Yorker.
Meredith participates in Designing Material Innovation symposium at CCA in San Francisco
Ellie participates in “Characters in the Theater Of Everyday Life”, a panel discussion hosted by MAS Context for their forthcoming issue on Character, guest-edited by Design w/ Co
T+E+A+M contributes two chapters to Lineament: Material, Representation and the Physical Figure in Architectural Production, edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith
Meredith presents “Neolithic Props” at the ACSA Fall Conference at Marfa, Texas.
“The Force of Things” is reviewed in The New York Times.
Vice Magazine reviews the Chicago Architecture Biennial, calls out “Ghostbox.”
Adam’s collaboration with composer Ashley Fure “The Force of Things” has its American premiere as part of PEAK Performances.
Paprika! interviews T+E+A+M for its issue on “Post-Irony”.
Phillip Denny reviews the Chicago Architecture Biennial and T+E+A+M’s project Ghostbox in Volume.
T+E+A+M exhibits three projects in Ambiguous Territory.
T+E+A+M’s new project, Clastic Order is part of the exhibition Designing Material Innovation at CCA’s Backlot in San Francisco.
“Ghostbox” is selected as one of the best models at the Chicago Architecture Biennial by Metropolis magazine.
T+E+A+M’s project for the Chicago Architecture Biennial is featured on Archinect News.
Ellie presents T+E+A+M’s new project “Ghostbox” at the “Make New History symposium” organized by the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Newcity Design publishes “T+E+A+M and its Reassembly Line” by Michael Workman.
T+E+A+M makes the cover of Metropolis! Read the related article on plies by Samuel Medina.
T+E+A+M featured in Architectural Record as a “Name to Know at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial”
Ellie is a guest on the Site Visit podcast.
The Architectural Imagination exhibition opens at A+D museum in Los Angeles, featuring Detroit Reassembly Plant.
T+E+A+M is featured in Archinect’s Small Studio Snapshot series.
Ellie goes to The MacDowell Colony for an artist’s residency.
Living Picture opens with first performance of the season at the Ragdale Foundation
T+E+A+M is interviewed in Pool Issue 2: Rules.
Ellie featured in May issue of a+u on “Emerging Architects in USA”
The Architect’s Newspaper reviews Living Picture.
Thom presents “Total Garbage” at Afterlives of Buildings symposium organized by Ang Li.
Excited to announce that our proposal Living Picture has been selected for the 2017 Adrian Smith Prize for the Ragdale Ring!
Adam’s collaboration with composer Ashley Fure titled The Force of Things is performed at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan
T+E+A+M selected by artistic directors Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee to exhibit at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, “Make New History.”
Ellie participates in Stand By Your Monster a conference on queering practice curated by Jaffer Kolb
Thom talks about “Funny Things” at Storefront for Art and Architecture along with Vivian Lee, Beverly Fresh and others
Detroit Reassembly Plant is on view in Detroit: The Architectural Imagination opens at MOCAD
Present Tense exhibition opens at Syracuse University in Florence
Ellie lectures to second-year students at USC Los Angeles
Meredith lectures at Columbia GSAPP Advanced IV Dialogue Exchange series
Meredith and Thom are awarded an ACSA Faculty Design Award Honorable Mention for Post Rock
Ellie and Meredith present Detroit Reassembly Plant to MArcPrep students in Detroit
Adam, Ellie, and Thom lecture at Syracuse University in Florence
Ellie and Adam’s competition-winning entry, Another Rock, is exhibited at The Secret Life of Buildings symposium in Austin, TX
Ellie chairs a paper session at the ACADIA conference on material agency
Meredith and Thom win an AIA Upjohn Grant for Post Rock
Meredith lectures at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Colleciton in Washington, D.C. as part of the Mellon Midday Dialogue series
Cones go on view at “The Army That You Have” exhibition at Current Space, Baltimore
Adam’s essay “Meat Helmet” is published in Log 36: ROBOLOG
Ellie gives a lecture titled “Author After Author” at Princeton University
Ellie and Adam participate in a gallery roundtable with Clark Thenhaus and Dora Epstein Jones at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles
Ellie lectures at SCI-Arc with Mira Henry as part of the “Duel and Duet” series
T+E+A+M lectures at Taubman College
Adam’s collaboration with composer Ashley Fure titled The Force of Things premiers at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt Germany
Rummage opens at Storefront for Art and Architecture’s exhibit, Sharing Models: Manhattanisms
Detroit Reassembly Plant opens at The Architectural Imagination exhibition curated by Monica Ponce de Leon and Cynthia Davidson for the U.S. Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale
“Views from the Plastisphere: A Preface to Post Rock Architecture” appears in the special printed edition of The Avery Review, Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary
Ellie participates in IdeasCity Detroit as a mentor and panelist
Ellie and Adam participate in a conversation organized by Nate Hume at Penn Design on architectural representation
Inside Things, an exhibition of work by Ellie Abrons, opens in the SCI-Arc Library Gallery
Adam’s collaboration with artist Matt Kenyon titled Tap opens at the 2016 Research Through Making show at Taubman College
Meredith and Thom’s project, Post Rock, opens at the 2016 Research Through Making show at Taubman College
Ellie and Adam lead the Taylor Seminar at the University of Calgary, leading a week-long workshop and giving a lecture as part of the Design Matters series
Texture Extended: Contemporary Techniques of Architectural Surfacing, a paper co-authored Ellie + Adam, is presented at the TxA Emerging Design + Technology conference in Austin, Texas
Ellie and Adam attend the ACADIA conference to chair paper sessions and presentTexture Tectonics on a panel moderated by Filip Tejchman
Thom is named a “Firm to Watch” by Architectural Record
Ellie presents her paper, “Surface Relief: A Case for Things in the Round” at the ACSA Fall conference at Syracuse University
Adam presents his paper, “Weird Functionalism” at the ACSA Fall conference at Syracuse University
Meredith presents “Post Rock Aesthetics” at the ACSA Fall conference at Syracuse University
Meredith lectures at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Ann Arbor
T+E+A+M is selected to present work in the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. The pavilion is co-curated by Cynthia Davidson and Monica Ponce de Leon, who will organize the exhibition, The Architectural Imagination
Adam’s work is published in Young Architects 16: Overlay published by Princeton Architectural Press
Meredith and Thom are asked “Is This Garbage?” a salon discussion curated by Group Under at The Bakery, Brooklyn, NY
The Marq, a restaurant designed by Ellie and Adam, opens in Marquette, MI
Meredith’s project “Bioplastics! and Architecture’s Many Natures” receives a Graham Foundation Research Grant
Adam lectures at Texas A&M College of Architecture
Thom is awarded the 2015 Architectural League Prize
DRAWN, an exhibition of drawings by UCLA alumni, opens at UCLA’s Perloff Gallery
Adam’s essay “Rocks, Words, and the Magically Real” is published in Pidgin 19: Magic
Adam presents “Glittering Ugly Objects” at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and The Migrating Center in Toronto, ON
Adam chairs “Super Session” at ACSA annual conference on Possible Mediums at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and The Migrating Center in Toronto, ON
Adam awarded ACSA Creative Achievement Award for Possible Mediums (with Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, and Kyle Miller) at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and The Migrating Center in Toronto, ON
Ellie presents “Headless Bellies and Other Forms of Architectural Allusion” at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and The Migrating Center in Toronto, ON
Meredith presents “Chasing Rainbows: Architecture as Environmental Medium,” at the Catalog of the Anthropocene Age Symposium, Syracuse University
Ellie and Adam’s project Texture Tectonics opens as part of the Research Through Making exhibition
Electrofrost, Meredith’s collaboration with Anya Sirota and Jean Louis Farges, opens as part of the Research Through Making exhibition