tom@wkarch.com

Tom joined Wheeler Kearns Architects in 1991 and became a principal in 1995. Tom has been Project Architect for several large institutional projects including the Hamill Family Play Zoo at the Brookfield Zoo and the Arts & Communications Center at Trinity Christian College, as well as numerous residential projects of various scales.

Tom graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture, cum laude, from the University of Cincinnati in 1983, where he received the AIA Cincinnati Chapter Design Excellence Award, and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University in 1990.

Between college and graduate studies, Tom worked for five years with R.M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects in New York City. While there, he was Project Architect for a three-floor 54,000sf interior of an Advertising Agency with an emphasis on creative ingenuity.  Other projects included private residences in Rye NY and Pound Ridge NY, as well as assisting with design for a Town Hall in Salisbury, Connecticut and several university laboratory/teaching facilities.
 
During graduate school, Tom worked at the New York office of Agrest and Gandelsonas, assisting with drawings for two private residences. After he graduated, he worked in New Haven, Connecticut with Robert Orr Associates where he was Project Architect for private residences in Connecticut, Kansas City, and Aspen, Colorado.

Tom has served as visiting juror at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Notre Dame and the Marwen Foundation. He is a registered architect in New York and Illinois and a member of the American Institute of Architects. Tom’s wife, Sarah, also an architect, is employed at Gensler. Tom, Sarah and their daughter Jane Eloise live in Roscoe Village in Chicago.

Tom Bader