Susan Jones, FAIA

Lead Architect, Heartwood

Susan Jones, FAIA, is an architect with over 30 years of experience and is the lead architect of Heartwood. Founder of the award-winning architectural Seattle firm atelierjones, she focuses primarily on designing and building lower-carbon, mass timber buildings. With eight completed mass timber projects, atelierjones is a national leader. atelierjones, a solely woman-owned architectural firm, designs tall and mid-rise, multi-family mass timber housing, as well as mass timber institutional buildings and single-family houses. Susan regularly partakes in national and international leadership-level collaborations to create change at scale and ensure rigor on multiple levels, from forest health to LCA studies, to fire testing, including a multi-year commitment to write and pass new national 2021/2024 ICC Tall Wood Building Codes.

Susan Jones was awarded the 2024 AIA Seattle Gold Medal, recognizing distinguished lifetime achievement in architecture, including design and professional practice and service to the profession, the community, education and the arts.