John Ronan

John Ronan is the founding principal of John Ronan Architects in Chicago, founded in 1999. He serves as Lead Designer on all projects the office undertakes and is known for his abstract yet sensuous work which explores materiality and atmosphere. His firm has been the recipient of three AIA Institute National Honor Awards—for the Poetry Foundation and The Gary Comer Youth Center, and the Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship at the Illinois Institute of Technology. John is currently the John & Jeanne Rowe Endowed Professor in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology.