Thomas Moran

Thom Moran is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where he arrived in 2009 as the Muschenheim Fellow. His work develops new approaches to the material and technical problems of construction, from the design of buildings to the invention of building products.

He is a founding principal of T+E+A+M, an Ann Arbor practice whose built work includes Building in a Building, a mixed-use adaptive reuse project in Detroit, and The Warehouse, an experimental music venue at Dartmouth College. In 2025 T+E+A+M was named to Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard. The practice has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale and the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and its work has been published in Dwell, Dezeen, Wallpaper, and Azure, among others.

With Meredith Miller, Moran leads Post Rock, a research initiative that has developed a patented process for making building cladding from automotive waste plastics and spent foundry sand. Supported by the National Science Foundation and the State of Michigan, the project is now the basis of a Michigan company bringing the product to market.

Moran teaches construction, fabrication, and design studios, and directs the Bachelor of Science in Architecture program. He holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University and a Bachelor of Science in Architectural Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.