He received his master’s degree in architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has significant professional experience as project designer for Eisenman Architects, Leeser Architecture, and Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. He has taught and guest lectured at a variety of institutions, including the Cooper Union and the Cranbrook Academy of Art. In 2004 Saunders was awarded the SOM Research and Travel Fellowship to pursue his research on the relationship of equation-based geometries to early twentieth-century pioneers in reinforced concrete. His current practice and research interests lie in computational geometry as it relates to emerging technology, fabrication, and performance. He is currently working on a book using parametric modeling as an analysis tool of seventeenth-century Italian Baroque architecture.