LEVER Architecture
Samantha Schuermann is an accomplished Architectural Designer at LEVER Architecture since April 2019. Prior experience includes serving as a Graduate Research Assistant at Rice University from August 2016 to August 2018, and two internships at anderson architects and Solomon Cordwell Buenz, focusing on retail design, single-family residential projects, and mixed-use housing, including work on the Anaha Tower in Honolulu, HI. Samantha holds a Master of Architecture from Rice University obtained in 2018 and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati, completed in 2016.
LEVER Architecture
LEVER Architecture is a Portland, Oregon based design firm that is dedicated to the creation of buildings that elevate human experience. The firm works closely with creative and mission-driven clients and has developed a body of built work that includes student housing for the Pacific Northwest College of Art, campus planning and design for major entertainment companies in California, and the L'Angolo Estate Winery. LEVER is nationally recognized for material innovation and pioneering work with mass timber construction. The firm recently completed Albina Yard, the first building made from US-produced Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT). In 2017, LEVER was named to Architectural Record's Design Vanguard and the Architectural League of New York's Emerging Voices. The firm's work has been published in the Atlantic, New York Times, Surface, and Dwell among others; and was recently featured in "Timber City," an exhibition at the National Building Museum on Washington DC.