The AIA Fort Worth Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural, urban design and unbuilt projects by architects practicing in the Fort Worth chapter to promote public interest in design excellence.
Doors open at 5:30pm. Award announcements will begin at 6:00pm, followed by the lecture “out of the ordinary” by John Ronan, FAIA.
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Founded in 1999, John Ronan Architects is an internationally-recognized design firm based in Chicago and comprised of dedicated design professionals committed to producing architecture of the highest quality, marked by conceptual innovation, exploration of materiality, and a rigorous attention to detail. The firm has a studio culture and its working method is research-based and collaborative. Led by John Ronan FAIA, the firm pursues an iterative design methodology to explore and test a wide range of ideas in order to find the response that feels intuitively correct for each situation, based on its unique site, program and context (cultural, historical, economic, social). Working across a wide range of scales and project types, there is a searching quality to the studio’s work which seeks to produce that which is compelling and memorable.
Many will know John for his firm’s widely published, award-winning Chicago projects including the Poetry Foundation, Gary Comer Youth Center, Independence Library and Apartments, Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship at IIT, and most recently the new Chicago Park District Headquarters. As these projects suggest, John Ronan Architects works across a wide range of building types and scales. The firm has also competed in a number of invited international design competitions and was a finalist for the Obama Presidential Center and the UCD Future Campus project in Dublin. In 2024, the firm won the invited competition to design the Memorial for Fallen Journalists on the Mall in Washington, D.C. In addition to covering these projects and exploring how place has informed his designs, John will show some work currently “on the boards.”