Elise DeChard is a licensed architect in Michigan and New York.

With fifteen years of experience in the field, she has worked with small businesses, homeowners, artists, developers, and community stakeholders, designing everything from community art spaces to collaborative manufacturing centers to fortunetelling walls of TVs.

Before relocating to Michigan, Elise worked in architecture and development in New York City, notably for Macro Sea on projects like New Lab at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Philadelphia Coworking Space, as well as for Marvel Architects on New Lab and the Prince Street Residences.

From 2016 to 2018, Elise ran Tessellate, an experimental gallery and international artist residency, in a suburban garage in Pontiac. Her work has been featured in Architectural Digest, The Architect’s Newspaper, Wallpaper*, Design Milk, Cubic Journal, TreeHugger, The Oakland Press, Fox2 News Detroit, and Curbed Detroit. She has also been recognized in Detroit Month of Design (2018-2021) and named a Notable Woman in Design by Crain's Detroit.

Elise is the Interim Co-Architect in Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art, and has taught at Lawrence Technological University and Kendall College of Art and Design.

Megan Finley is an architectural designer with four years of professional experience in space-making across typologies, scales, and programs.

With a background in painting and performance design, Megan embraces architecture as a curation of cultural joys and priorities. Much of Megan’s creative work demonstrates an affinity with design research and theory, showcasing a fun, out-of-the-box, approach to serious propositions. She enjoys dicussing the reasoning and implications of local zoning and building code for each project; bookmarking ways in which regulations can be updated to better meet civic needs.

Megan is a member of the 2025 Christopher Kelley Leadership Development Program through AIA Detroit.