Chicago Architects Offices: Illinois Design Firms
Key modern IL architecture studios. Contemporary United States of America building designers.
post updated October 11, 2026
Chicago Architect – Architect Listings, IL, USA
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Chicago Architects Offices
This page contains a selection of major Chicago architects firms, with links to individual practice pages. We select the key Chicago Architects, but additions are always welcome. The focus is on contemporary architects in Chicago but information on traditional architecture studios is a lso welcome.
The most celebrated Chicago architect from the past is Mies van der Rohe, Architect. He was born in Aachen, Germany, but moved to the US at the time of the Second World War. A few of this buildings in the city are world-famous, notably Crown Hall at IIT, the IIT Masterplan, and the Lake Shore Drive apartments.
Daniel Burnham and John Wellborn Root (Burnham and Root) deserve a mention as they placed the city firmly on the world map with their early skyscraper designs.
Frank Lloyd Wright designed many key buildings early in his career in Chicago, although his architecture studio was later based in Taliesin West.
Bruce Graham and Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill were celebrated skyscraper building designers in the latter part of the 20th Century.
Currently the most notable architecture practice are Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, Goettsch Partners, Jahn and Perkins+Will Architects – all with international work.
Additions for the Chicago Architecture Studios page welcome
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Millennium Park Pavilion picture from architect
Links to Chicago Architect Studio Information – Illinois Architect Practices listed alphabetically by surname.
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Major Chicago Architect Practices
Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture – AS+GG
Goettsch Partners formerly Lohan Caprile Goettsch Architects
Murphy/Jahn – Helmut Jahn
Perkins+Will Architects
Studio Gang Architects
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Chicago Architects Practices
Chicago architects offices
Destefano & Partners (Chicago + Los Angeles)
Solomon Cordwell Buenz Architects
Zoka Zola Architecture + Urban Design
More architect studios in Illinois online very soon
Buckingham Fountain Chicago:
picture © Joe Lekas
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Major 20th Century US Architect
Walter Netsch – former SOM partner
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Major 20th Century Illinois Architects not yet listed
Illinois design studios
Daniel Burnham, Architect
Louis Sullivan, Architect
Chicago Seven
James Ingo Freed
Tom Beeby
Larry Booth
Stuart Cohen
James Nagle
Stanley Tigerman
Ben Weese
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
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Famous Architects connected to the city
American architecture practices, US architectural firms
SOM – Skidmore Owings Merrill
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Chicago architect practices, Illinois architecture design offices, IL engineers companies, US studios
Chicago Architect Offices: Practices
Architectural Offices Illinois, USA – United States of America Design Studio Listings Information
post updated August 19, 2025
Chicago Architecture Studios
Chicago Design Practices, contact details, alphabetical:
| Architect | phone / fax | e-mail / website | address |
| Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture | +1 312 920 1888 +1 312 920 1775 | info(at)smithgill.com www.smithgill.com | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture LLP 111 West Monroe, Suite 2300 Chicago, 60603 IL, United States |
| Destefano & Partners | +1 312 8364321 +1 312 8364322 | info(at)dpdesigns.com www.destefanoandpartners.com | De Stefano + Partners 330 North Wabash Avenue, Suite 3200 Chicago, 60611 IL, United States |
Chicago Architect Practices Listing
Architects + Landscape Architects + Structural Engineers with offices in Chicago, Illinois
Illinois Architect Additions welcome: info(at)e-architect.com
The Chicago Architecture site aims to promote Chicago Architects as well as the Illinois’ architecture. The page is a good starting point for selecting an Illinois architect office.
Chicago Architects office details are listed for an annual fee, likewise for Chicago Structural Engineers, etc.
e-mail e-architect: info(at)e-architect.com
WMS Boathouse at Clark Park building designed by Studio Gang Architects:
photo : Steve Hall, © Hedrich Blessing
Please email us your architectural office contact details. Design practices can pay via PayPal or by bank transfer.
See Architect Profiles Information for prices and details.
It is the responsibility of any architectural company or architecture practice – once listed and fee paid – to inform us if their office details are amended.
Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
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Architecture in Chicago
Contemporary Chicago Architectural Projects
Chicago Architectural Design – chronological list
Charles River Associates Chicago Office, One South Wacker Drive building design by Elkus Manfredi Architects:
photograph © Andrew Bordwin
Charles River Associates Offices
CRA’s 35,620-sf workplace redesign unifies the company’s existing two-floor office and replaces the previously dim, dark, crowded environment with a daylight-filled, expansive workplace within the original two-floor footprint.
777 West Chicago Avenue Building, 777 W Chicago Avenue building designed by Solomon Cordwell Buenz (SCB) Architects:
image : Solomon Cordwell Buenz Architects
777 W. Chicago Avenue Building
Tribune Real Estate Holdings receives final approval for a transformational riverfront development at 777 W. Chicago Avenue. Together with Tribune Media’s neighboring property at 700 West Chicago Avenue, the combined site will be reimagined as The River District, a landmark urban tech-centric neighborhood, extends the downtown district.
Thompson Center Design Competition, for a major building designed by Helmut Jahn in 1984:
photo courtesy of CAC
Thompson Center Design Competition Chicago
“The Thompson Center’s design was progressive for its time. Dwelling in the vertical shadows of modern icons like Mies van der Rohe’s Daley Center, Helmut Jahn’s mid-rise Thompson Center pierced the trends of neighboring International Style and Neoclassical buildings with a revolutionary concept for a civic building, one that represents a promising future of ‘transparency and accessibility’.
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US Architectural Practices
USA Architects Offices – selection:
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