T+E+A+M is an architecture practice led by Thom Moran + Ellie Abrons + Adam Fure + Meredith Miller.

Thom Moran

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.us
Ellie Abrons

Ellie 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.us
Adam

Adam 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.us
Meredith

Meredith 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.us
2021 December

T+E+A+M featured in the January issue of Wallpaper* magazine

2021 December

Northwood ADU published in Dwell+

2021 November

Adam and Thom talk with Andrew Holder and Michael Hays and students in their Inscriptions course at the GSD.

2021 November

Ellie and Thom give a lecture to studio diazmoreno & garciagrinda at die Angewandte in Vienna

2021 October

T+E+A+M commissioned to design two single-family homes to fit within the historic Indian Village neighborhood of Detroit.

2021 October

T+E+A+M commissioned to design Sonic Hub, a new space for experimental music and sound at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.

2021 August

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.

2021 April

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.

2021 March

T+E+A+M invited to submit to international competition to design an exhibition pavilion in Kiev.

2021 February

Design development is complete for retail building renovation project in Detroit.

2021 February

4 Over 4, our first multi-family project in Detroit, is on track to break ground this summer.

2021 January

T+E+A+M finishes schematic design on residential renovation and addition in St. Petersburg, FL.

2020 October 21 

Ellie joins Penn Architecture remotely to give a lecture.

2020 October 6

Ellie and Meredith give a remote lecture for Cooper Union School of Architecture.

2020 September

Welcome to the T+E+A+M, Hannah Perrino and Gery Vargas, two full-time project designers!

2020 July

T+E+A+M commissioned to design interior for high-concept footwear and clothing retailer with space for its community outreach program.

2020 July 

T+E+A+M commissioned to readapt retail building with a new community-focused purpose in Detroit

2020 March 3

T+E+A+M completes schematic design for first phase of Detroit housing development.

2020 February 27 

Document journal publishes images and text from a vist to T+E+A+M’s studio.

2020 February 27

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.

2020 February 4 

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.

2019 December 

Ellie writes “Legendary Acts,” an essay published in MAS Context.

2019 November 

T+E+A+M commissioned to design environmentally progressive modular housing development in Detroit

2019 October 

T+E+A+M breaks ground on Ann Arbor ADU, expected completion in 2021

2019 

T+E+A+M principals Ellie Abrons and Adam Fure building Ann Arbor’s first ADU at their personal home

2019 

Ellie contributes an essay to Authorship: Discourse, A Series on Architecture.

2019 

Ellie writes the Foreward for Galo Canizares’ new book, Digital Fabrications: Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet.

2019 May 9-10 

Ellie and Adam are part of a multi-disciplinary team organizing the conference Living A Digital Life: Objects, Environments, Power.

2019 May 9-10 

Adam publishes and essay titled “Aesthetics Post Digital” in Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Art, Architecture, and Philosophy.

2019 Apirl 9 

Ellie particpates in Family Dinner at Harvard GSD.

2019 March 30

Ellie and Adam co-moderate a session with McLain Clutter, entitled “Becoming Digital,” at the ACSA 107th Annual Meeting in Pittsburgh.

2019 March 25 

Ellie goes to SCI-Arc for the Graduate Thesis Lab review and symposium.

2019 March 8 

Meredith presents at the Preston Thomas Memorial Symposium on Waste at Cornell AAP.

2019 February 28 

Adam and Ellie particpate in Pratt Sessions 13 with Freeland Buck.

2019 February 27 

Adam and Ellie lecture at Kent State University.

2019 February 4

T+E+A+M opens a new exhibition at Kent State University titled “Models on View.”

2019 January 24-25 

Ellie goes to Harvard GSD for Thesis reviews.

2019 January 22 

T+E+A+M is one of the participants in Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, Volume II.

2019 January 

T+E+A+M is interviewed in See/Saw, the student-run publication of the University of Maryland School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation.

2019 January 

T+E+A+M begins teaching a graduate visiting studio at The University of Hong Kong.

2018 December 

T+E+A+M wins an Honorable Mention for New Materials in the AN Best of Design Awards for Clastic Order.

2018 November 6 

Adam goes to the University of Toronto for reviews.

2018 November 29-30

Adam and Ellie particpate in “The Persistence of Material,” a 2-day interdisciplinary seminar at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.

2018 November 12 

Ellie lectures at Texas A&M University.

2018 November 9 

T+E+A+M particpates in the 44 Low Resolution Houses Symposium at Princeton School of Architecture.

2018 November 6 

Ellie particpates in “Conversations: ‘On Medium'” with Michael Meredith and Kyle Miller at Syracuse University.

2018 October 17 

Meredith and Thom’s plastic research featured at Celebrate Invention at University of Michigan.

2018 October 12 

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.

2018 October 12 

Thom presents his paper, “Laughing Matter: Architecture and Physical Comedy” at the ACSA Fall conference, held at The University of Milwaukee Wisconsin.

2018 October 12 

Ellie and Adam present their paper, “Computer Worlds” at the ACSA Fall conference, held at The University of Milwaukee Wisconsin.

2018 September 20 

Meredith and Thom present “Post Rock: From Pollution to Product” at the Building and Material Reuse Association’s 2018 DeCon Conference.

2018 September 18 

Adam and fellow editors Kelly Bair, Kristy Balliet, and Kyle Miller publish Possible Mediums with ACTAR.

2018 September 13 

Adam participates in a symposium at Yale in conjunction with the exhibition, Adjacencies.

2018 September 11 

T+E+A+M exhibits A Range Life in 44 Low Resolution Houses, an exhibition at Princeton School of Architecture curated by Michael Meredith.

2018 August 30 

T+E+A+M exhibits Additional Address in Adjacencies, an exhibition at Yale School of Architecture curated by Nate Hume.

2018 August 15 

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.

2018 August 7 

The Force of Things reviewed by The New York Times.

2018 August 7 

The Force of Things reviewed by National Sawdust.

2018 August 7 

The Force of Things reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.

2018 August 7 

The Force of Things is published in New York Magazine.

2018 August 6 

Lincoln Center presents The Force of Things as part of it’s “Mostly Mozart” summer festival.

2018 June 20 

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.

2018 June 14 

T+E+A+M presents “Reassembly” at New Instrumentalties, the 2018 ACSA International Conference in Madrid.

2018 May 26 

Ellie contributes an essay, “Mediation, More or Less,” to the exhibition catalogue for Plots, Print, Projections at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale.

2018 May 22 

Ellie contributes thoughts on criticism for The Architect’s Newspaper article, “How has the internet changed architecture criticism?”

2018 May 22 

Adam’s Op-ed “What does it really mean to be “post-digital” in architecture and beyond” is published in The Architect’s Newspaper.

2018 May 21 

T+E+A+M is featured in AN Interiors.

2018 May 10-11 

Ellie serves on the Super Jury at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee’s School of Architecture.

2018 April 28 

Adam and Ellie go to Pratt School of Architecture for final reviews.

2018 April 26 

Adam and Ellie go to Penn Design for final reviews.

2018 April 25 

Jordan Hicks offers “Observations on T+E+A+M’s Ghostbox” in Avery Shorts

2018 April 19 

Adam goes to Syracuse for final reviews.

2018 April 12 

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.

2018 April 10 

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

2018 April 7 

Ellie serves on the jury for Princeton School of Architecture’s thesis reviews.

2018 April 5 

Meredith lectures at Princeton’s School of Architecture.

2018 March 19 

T+E+A+M is on the jury for the 6th annual Ragdale Ring competition.

2018 March 16 

T+E+A+M presents Clastic Order at the 106th ACSA Annual Meeting in Denver, CO.

2018 March 5 

T+E+A+M lectures at Texas Tech University College of Architecture.

2018 March 2 

Ellie presents a paper at NCBDS (National Conference on the Beginning Design Student) in Cincinatti.

2018 March 2 

Thom lectures about alternative modes of practice at the University of Toronto.

2018 February 26 

T+E+A+M lectures at Tulane School of Architecture.

2018 February 23-26 

T+E+A+M leads Tex_Obj, a student workshop at Tulane School of Architecture.

2018 February 2-3

Members of T+E+A+M organize and participate in the Becoming Digital conference.

2018 January 20

T+E+A+M lectures at Columbia University’s GSAPP with a response by Ada Tolla.

2018 January 22 

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.

2017 December 14 

Living Picture wins Architect’s Newspaper “Best of Design Award for Temporary Installation”

2017 December 12 

“The Force of Things” named a “notable performance of 2017” by The New Yorker.

2017 December 4

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

2017 December 1

T+E+A+M featured in PROPS 22 “It’s a Flat Flat World”

2017 November 16 

Clastic Order reveiwed in Architect Magazine’s article, “How Material Experimentation Can Go Well and Go Wrong”

2017 November 15 

Ellie’s essay “For Real” published in Log 41

2017 November 11 

Thom particpates in Making Room for Action as part of Performa 17

2017 November 5

Meredith profiled in Spanish newspaper El Dia

2017 October 30

“The Force of Things” is reviewed in The New Yorker.

2017 October 27 

Meredith participates in Designing Material Innovation symposium at CCA in San Francisco

2017 October 24

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

2017 October

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

2017 October 14 

Meredith presents “Neolithic Props” at the ACSA Fall Conference at Marfa, Texas.

2017 October 10

“The Force of Things” is reviewed in The New York Times.

2017 October 7 

Vice Magazine reviews the Chicago Architecture Biennial, calls out “Ghostbox.”

2017 October 6 

Adam’s collaboration with composer Ashley Fure “The Force of Things” has its American premiere as part of PEAK Performances.

2017 September 

Paprika! interviews T+E+A+M for its issue on “Post-Irony”.

2017 September 28 

Phillip Denny reviews the Chicago Architecture Biennial and T+E+A+M’s project Ghostbox in Volume.

2017 September 27 

T+E+A+M exhibits three projects in Ambiguous Territory.

2017 September 28 

T+E+A+M’s new project, Clastic Order is part of the exhibition Designing Material Innovation at CCA’s Backlot in San Francisco.

2017 September 19 

“Ghostbox” is selected as one of the best models at the Chicago Architecture Biennial by Metropolis magazine.

2017 September 15

T+E+A+M’s project for the Chicago Architecture Biennial is featured on Archinect News.

2017 September 14 

Ellie presents T+E+A+M’s new project “Ghostbox” at the “Make New History symposium” organized by the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

2017 September 13 

Newcity Design publishes “T+E+A+M and its Reassembly Line” by Michael Workman.

2017 September 11 

T+E+A+M makes the cover of Metropolis! Read the related article on plies by Samuel Medina.

2017 September 5 

T+E+A+M featured in Architectural Record as a “Name to Know at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial”

2017 September 

Ellie is a guest on the Site Visit podcast.

2017 July 14 

The Architectural Imagination exhibition opens at A+D museum in Los Angeles, featuring Detroit Reassembly Plant.

2017 June 19 

T+E+A+M is featured in Archinect’s Small Studio Snapshot series.

2017 June 

Ellie goes to The MacDowell Colony for an artist’s residency.

2017 June 15 

Living Picture opens with first performance of the season at the Ragdale Foundation

2017 June 

T+E+A+M is interviewed in Pool Issue 2: Rules.

2017 May 

Ellie featured in May issue of a+u on “Emerging Architects in USA”

2017 May 16

The Architect’s Newspaper reviews Living Picture.

2017 April 8 

Thom presents “Total Garbage” at Afterlives of Buildings symposium organized by Ang Li.

2017 March 21

Excited to announce that our proposal Living Picture has been selected for the 2017 Adrian Smith Prize for the Ragdale Ring!

2017 March 11 

Adam’s collaboration with composer Ashley Fure titled The Force of Things is performed at the Riverside Arts Center in Ypsilanti, Michigan

2017 March 9 

T+E+A+M selected by artistic directors Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee to exhibit at the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, “Make New History.”

2017 March 4

Ellie participates in Stand By Your Monster a conference on queering practice curated by Jaffer Kolb

2017 February 14

Thom talks about “Funny Things” at Storefront for Art and Architecture along with Vivian Lee, Beverly Fresh and others

2017 February 11 

Detroit Reassembly Plant is on view in Detroit: The Architectural Imagination opens at MOCAD

2017 February

Present Tense exhibition opens at Syracuse University in Florence

2017 February 

Ellie lectures to second-year students at USC Los Angeles

2017 February

Meredith lectures at Columbia GSAPP Advanced IV Dialogue Exchange series

2017 February

Meredith and Thom are awarded an ACSA Faculty Design Award Honorable Mention for Post Rock

2016 December 

Ellie and Meredith present Detroit Reassembly Plant to MArcPrep students in Detroit

2016 December

Adam, Ellie, and Thom lecture at Syracuse University in Florence

2016 October

Ellie and Adam’s competition-winning entry, Another Rock, is exhibited at The Secret Life of Buildings symposium in Austin, TX

2016 October 

Ellie chairs a paper session at the ACADIA conference on material agency

2016 October 

Meredith and Thom win an AIA Upjohn Grant for Post Rock

2016 October

Meredith lectures at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Colleciton in Washington, D.C. as part of the Mellon Midday Dialogue series

2016 September 17

Cones go on view at “The Army That You Have” exhibition at Current Space, Baltimore

2016 September

Adam’s essay “Meat Helmet” is published in Log 36: ROBOLOG

2016 September 

Ellie gives a lecture titled “Author After Author” at Princeton University

2016 September

Ellie and Adam participate in a gallery roundtable with Clark Thenhaus and Dora Epstein Jones at Jai & Jai Gallery in Los Angeles

2016 September

Ellie lectures at SCI-Arc with Mira Henry as part of the “Duel and Duet” series

2016 September 

T+E+A+M lectures at Taubman College

2016 August

Adam’s collaboration with composer Ashley Fure titled The Force of Things premiers at the International Summer Course for New Music in Darmstadt Germany

2016 July

Rummage opens at Storefront for Art and Architecture’s exhibit, Sharing Models: Manhattanisms

2016 May

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

2016 May

“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

2016 April

Ellie participates in IdeasCity Detroit as a mentor and panelist

2016 March

Ellie and Adam participate in a conversation organized by Nate Hume at Penn Design on architectural representation

2016 March

Inside Things, an exhibition of work by Ellie Abrons, opens in the SCI-Arc Library Gallery

2016 March

Adam’s collaboration with artist Matt Kenyon titled Tap opens at the 2016 Research Through Making show at Taubman College

2016 March

Meredith and Thom’s project, Post Rock, opens at the 2016 Research Through Making show at Taubman College

2016 February

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

2015 November

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

2015 October

Ellie and Adam attend the ACADIA conference to chair paper sessions and presentTexture Tectonics on a panel moderated by Filip Tejchman

2015 October

Thom is named a “Firm to Watch” by Architectural Record

2015 October

Ellie presents her paper, “Surface Relief: A Case for Things in the Round” at the ACSA Fall conference at Syracuse University

2015 October

Adam presents his paper, “Weird Functionalism” at the ACSA Fall conference at Syracuse University

2015 October

Meredith presents “Post Rock Aesthetics” at the ACSA Fall conference at Syracuse University

2015 October

Meredith lectures at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute, Ann Arbor

2015 August

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

2015 July

Adam’s work is published in Young Architects 16: Overlay published by Princeton Architectural Press

2015 June

Meredith and Thom are asked “Is This Garbage?” a salon discussion curated by Group Under at The Bakery, Brooklyn, NY

2015 May

The Marq, a restaurant designed by Ellie and Adam, opens in Marquette, MI

2015 May

Meredith’s project “Bioplastics! and Architecture’s Many Natures” receives a Graham Foundation Research Grant

2015 May

Adam lectures at Texas A&M College of Architecture

2015 May

Thom is awarded the 2015 Architectural League Prize

2015 April

DRAWN, an exhibition of drawings by UCLA alumni, opens at UCLA’s Perloff Gallery

2015 April

Adam’s essay “Rocks, Words, and the Magically Real” is published in Pidgin 19: Magic

2015 March

Adam presents “Glittering Ugly Objects” at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and The Migrating Center in Toronto, ON

2015 March

Adam chairs “Super Session” at ACSA annual conference on Possible Mediums at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and The Migrating Center in Toronto, ON

2015 March

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

2015 May

Ellie presents “Headless Bellies and Other Forms of Architectural Allusion” at ACSA 103: The Expanding Periphery and The Migrating Center in Toronto, ON

2015 March

Meredith presents “Chasing Rainbows: Architecture as Environmental Medium,” at the Catalog of the Anthropocene Age Symposium, Syracuse University

2015 March

Ellie and Adam’s project Texture Tectonics opens as part of the Research Through Making exhibition

2015 March

Electrofrost, Meredith’s collaboration with Anya Sirota and Jean Louis Farges, opens as part of the Research Through Making exhibition