Jason Griffiths is a UK-registered architect and an associate professor at the University of Nebraska, College of Architecture. He also serves as the director of PLAIN Design–Build, an architectural collective focused on creating buildings using renewable wood resources. In 2015, he was awarded the Hyde Chair of Excellence and holds the W. Cecil Steward Professor for Sustainability.

Griffiths’ work explores a transdisciplinary approach to engineered lumber, normative systems of architecture and forestry production. His work combines the study of “ordinary” buildings with the emerging technology of cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction through built projects, architectural writing and funded research. His teaching practice engages architecture students with design-build projects, collaborating with non-profit organizations, CLT manufacturers and academic institutions.Griffiths received his Master’s in Architecture with distinction from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UK, in 1994 and began a career that mixed practice with teaching and competition work. After his first competition win, he was invited to teach with Sir Peter Cook on the Bartlett’s M. Arch. and Dip 9 Unit with Professor David Greene. During the 90s, he built a portfolio of competition prizes and teaching positions in London and Oxford. He co-directed graduate studies at the University of Westminster and was a senior lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. In 2003, he moved to North America and taught at the Tech de Monterrey, the University of Texas at Austin, Iowa State University and Arizona State University. He has also held visiting positions at ESTAM in Madrid, the AA Visiting School in Chengdu, Sharda University in Delhi and Nirma University in Ahmedabad. From 2017-19, he was a professor of Summer immersion at The School of Architecture at Taliesin in Wisconsin. In addition, Griffiths has lectured widely throughout Europe, Asia and North America.