About

figureForward

A fundamental idea at figureForward is that we can conceive our own way; not just the way we design, but the type of practice we create, and kind of built environment we advocate for, and communities we serve. We will not be forced into the mould of the great majority of conventional practice models. Our approach, the practical methods, are about cultivating independence, in what we design and in how you experience them.

Embracing Adaptability

How we choose to construct our built environment is the most important factor in how we conceive a sustainable future. Circularity, resilience, eco-conception are all aspects of this need. And a new urban model must be implemented to achieve these goals. Cities must be continually adapted and moved towards achieving and maintaining a circularity model, with progressive building and closer integration. It’s about adaptation rather compartmentalization. And it must all be done with the lightest possible environmental footprint.

Experience

Jason Sachs is an architect and designer who has worked on projects at every scale from the Chicago Spire and the largest women’s university campus in the world, to furniture design, and jewelry, on custom fabrications for the projects of Zaha Hadid Architects and SANAA. He has worked in massively multidisciplinary & multi-national teams and also as solo design/builder. He is a licensed architect in Illinois and California.

He has been developing projects with digital fabrication in project installations, since 2001. And developing custom digital tools is an ever evolving asset for our practice. He is a graduate of University of Illinois at Chicago Master of Architecture program and has an undergraduate degree in Geography from Boston University. He currently splits his time in practice between Los Angeles, Chicago and France. He has taught at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (AIADO). école nationale supérieure d’architecture de Grenoble (ensa Grenoble) and previously at ensa Paris La Villette and Versailles.

figureForward can do all these things, that is, we can bring together this unique mix of advanced computational tools and complex high intensity architecture project method, because of the rare combination of vast professional architecture experience, in full scope projects at every scale, knowledge and talent with algorithmic tools and methods. And, passion for the environment and culture before the game.