Now / Arriving Spring 2024

Latent is a progressive Chicago based architecture firm working at the intersection of design and community development to create social, economic, and environmental impact. They define the context surrounding a project before they design the content of architecture. They offer innovative design solutions to those in resource and budget limited environments through a participatory approach that leverages local assets to directly generate project opportunities. Their collaborations range from small-scale tactical interventions to new construction community buildings, adaptive reuse, neighborhood master plans, and design speculations.

Norman Kelley is an architecture and design collaborative between Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley based out of Chicago and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Thomas Kelley (MArch, Princeton University / BArch, University of Virginia) is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Carrie Norman (MArch, Princeton University / BArch, University of Virginia) is a licensed architect and an Assistant Professor at MIT School of Architecture and Planning. Their design work is represented by Volume Gallery in Chicago. Most recently, their renovation to the lobby at 190 South LaSalle was awarded a Best of Design Award in the Building Renovation category by The Architect’s Newspaper.

Woodhouse Tinucci Architects is an innovative design and idea practice specializing in architecture, interior design, programming, and planning projects. They are a tight-knit group of professionals who are deeply involved in and engaged with their work from the earliest idea stages through the final details of construction. Their projects span small and large, from public to private: all are critically important to them. In each, they search for the most appropriate, inventive, and relevant solutions by evaluating all criteria and by treating every constraint as an opportunity.