LEVER is an architectural design practice with offices in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles, California. The firm brings design excellence to buildings and spaces for mission-driven organizations and creative companies. LEVER is internationally recognized for material innovation and for pioneering work with Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). Their projects encompass first-of-their-kind timber buildings for clients such as The Nature Conservancy and Adidas and include more than $1M in research to develop and test wood building assemblies.
LEVER was recently recognized by Fast Company as one of the world’s most innovative companies; and in 2017, was named to Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard and to the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices. The firm’s work has been published in the Atlantic, the New York Times, Surface, and Dwell, among others; and was featured in Timber City, an exhibition at the National Building
Museum in Washington, D.C.