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Rooms

kitchen - kitchen 2
kitchen - kitchen 1
children’s room - room 1
art gallery - room 2 
book bus - public space 1
*seasonal space - public space 2 
*ampitheater - public space 3
daycare - public space 4


Houses

forever tudor - house 5
blue ADU- ADU 2
*certain futures - house 1
*thick/thin - house 2
*northlight - house 3
 lighthouse - house 4
*housing climate - multi-unit housing 1
student housing - multi-unit housing 2
*climate/housing/crisis - house + ADU kit
Etc.
 

print layouts - public communication 1  
newsletters - public communication 2 
branding - graphic design 1
*writing + exhibits - public communication 3 




*sustainable climate adaptive systems

Lyse Messmer


Lyse works across disciplines to design and support projects that create resilient and equitable communities in the face of climate change and associated disasters. In 2021, she graduated with her Masters of Architecture from University of Michigan where she was the 2019 Albert Kahn fellow. She received a student award for her project, “Certain Futures” which addressed climate change resilient building methods at the community scale.  After graduation, she gained architectural experience working on affordable housing and education projects in Los Angeles. In 2024, she began working independently designing housing using passive cooling systems and sustainable materials.

Prior to studying architecture, Lyse was a 2013 Challenge Detroit fellow and worked in Detroit as a graphic designer and community engagement consultant. She worked with Detroit Future City, Coalition on Temporary Shelter, The Detroit Riverfront Conservancy, Focus:Hope, and others to support equitable community development and blue/green infrastructure projects in Detroit. She studied visual arts and urban planning in undergrad, and still maintains that walking is the best way to understand place.

She has been a guest lecturer at University of Southern California and a guest reviewer at Lawrence Technological University and University of Michigan.  Lyse lives in Mount Washington, Los Angeles, where she enjoys uncovering bits of urban history on walks around her neighborhood.  




Selected Awards


Project   2021 Clark Library Exhibit, “Buying Home, Selling America: the House Catalog, 1906-1966.”
Published: MIPlace    University of Michigan Library, 2020


Project   Certain Futures
Award: Honorable Mention    Propositions Studio, Taubman Student Show, 2021


Project    Housing Climate Together
Nomination    Systems Studio, Taubman Student Show, 2021


Project   Previous Seasons
Nomination    Institutions Studio, Taubman Student Show, 2020


Scholarship   Albert Kahn Scholar

Internship + Award    Albert Kahn Associates, Summer 2019


Scholarship   Taubman Merit

Award    Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, 2019 - 2021


Lyse Messmer

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Lyse graduated with her masters of architecture from University of Michigan in 2021, where she was the 2019 Albert Kahn fellow. Her projects won various student awards. After graduation, she moved to Los Angeles, where she lives in a treehouse.
Interests

Cool breezes, bright sunshine, wiggly leaves.