John Ronan Architects

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 design responses in order to find the appropriate response that feels intuitively correct for each individual situation. each project is approached as a unique challenge and the firm has gained a reputation for responding to project briefs in unexpected ways. in works ranging in scale from small residential to cultural and institutional to large and complex urban planning projects, there is a searching quality that aims to find the appropriate response that feels intuitively correct for eac