Publications
| 2025 — | “Wheeler Kearns Designs Lakewood Balmoral Home to Connect to Nature” gb&d Magazine 9.24.2025 |
| “Inside the Design and Expansion of Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago” gb&d Magazine 9.15.2025 | |
| “A Parking Garage Becomes a Canvas for Caddo Storytelling” Arkansas Money & Politics, 8.21.2025 | |
| “Designed to Vanish: How Residential Architecture Is Evolving With the Landscape” Architizer, 7.08.2025 | |
| “Pure & Simple” Luxe Magazine, May/June 2025 | |
| “Meadow Lane Retreat” ArchDaily 1.10.2025 | |
| 2024 — | “Architecture and the American House Now” Forbes, 10.30.2024 |
| “Sawyer Retreat Design is Like a Treehouse Above the Dunes” gb&d Magazine, 10.21.2024 | |
| “Other Places, Other Views: Meadow Lane Retreat” RD Magazine, Vol 5 2024 | |
| “Two Gables: A Modern Sanctuary for Empty-Nesters” Objekt International D20, Sept 2024 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns wraps Michigan lake house with two tones of wood” Dezeen, 9.04.2024 | |
| “Designing Together: Leveraging Collaborative Design Thinking in Planning Education Spaces” Education Market Association ‘Essentials’, 7.18.2024 | |
| “Dialogue with the Environment: Two Gables by Wheeler Kearns Architects” Metalocus, 3.29.2024 | |
| “Chicago’s Longest-operating Food Pantry Incorporates Trauma-informed Principles” Retrofit Magazine, 3.11.2024 | |
| “Two Gables” Residential Design Magazine, Vol. 1, 2024 | |
| 2023 — | “Two Gables” Architectural Record Magazine, 12.27.2023 |
| “Youthful Building Provides A Safe Space” World Architecture News, 11.22.2023 | |
| “Nestled in the Wisconsin Woods, This Secluded Home is a Welcome Escape from the City” Plain Magazine 11.03.2023 | |
| “A Modernist Pavilion-Style House on a Secluded Lake“ Design Milk, 10.24.2023 | |
| “In Chicago, a Youth Center Woven Into Its Community (And Transit System)“ Architect Magazine, 5.01.2023 | |
| “New headquarters provide expanded social services to Chicago“ Inhabitat, 4.28.2023 | |
| “Under One Roof: The Broadway Youth Center offers essential care to Chicago’s LGBTQ youth“ The Architect’s Newspaper, 4.27.2023 | |
| “AIC Ryan Learning Center“ Education Snapshots, 3.14.2023 | |
| “Common Pantry’s New Lincoln Avenue Headquarters Aims To Open By Spring, Leaders Say“ Block Club Chicago, 1.24.2023 | |
| 2022 — | “Twice as Nice“ Luxe Interiors + Design Chicago, November / December 2022 Issue |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects Renovate and Design Strategic Alterations for the Art Institute of Chicago – Ryan Learning Center” Architizer, Nov. 2022 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects places wood-clad living rooms inside Michigan greenhouse“ Dezeen, 6.30.2022 | |
| “This Michigan greenhouse takes a whole new approach to ‘farm-to-table“ Fast Company, 5.25.2022 | |
| “Proud Moment: Broadway Youth Center opens its first purpose-built facility in Chicago“ Healthcare Design Magazine, April 2022 | |
| “North Lawndale Employment Network Sees Through Employment Barriers for the Formerly Incarcerated” Metropolis Magazine, 2.17.2022 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects on Innovative Adaptive Reuse for a Chicago School” gb&d Magazine, 01.25.2022 | |
| “Great Lakes Academy Expansion” Education Snapshots, 01.25.2022 | |
| “Case Study: Lakeview Penthouse by Wheeler Kearns Architects” Residential Design Magazine, 01.20.2022 | |
| “Chicago Academy Wraps Remarkable Revamp” School Construction News, 01.11.2022 | |
| 2021 — | “Chicago penthouse renovated by Wheeler Kearns Architects” World Interior News, 12.29.2021 |
| “Creating a Place of Pilgrimage” Sacred Places Magazine, Winter 2022 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects completes Howard Brown Health’s Broadway Youth Center in Chicago” BD+C Magazine, 12.07.2021 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects complete new HQ for Chicago-based charity” World Interiors News, 10.19.2021 | |
| “Happy Place” Coastal Living, Fall 2021 | |
| “Permanent Home for the North Lawndale Employment Network in Chicago” Chicago Defender, 09.02.2021 | |
| “West Side Job Training Campus Will Help Formerly Incarcerated People ‘To Do More, To Be More, To Soar’” Block Club Chicago, 08.27.2021 | |
| “How This Brownfield Transformed into an Aspirational School Campus” BUILDINGS, 08.03.2021 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects minimalist home complements Michigan’s landscape” World Architecture News, 08.02.2021 | |
| “Between the City and Lake Michigan” Metalocus, 07.25.2021 | |
| “Art Collecting Chicago Style” OBJEKT. 07.21.2021 | |
| “House Tour: A stylish mansard penthouse in Chicago with a uniquely curved interior” Home & Decor, 05.14.2021 | |
| “The Dune Grass Modern” Great Lakes by Design, Volume 5 Issue 2 | |
| “Building Blueprints Vertical Learning: Chicago School Moves into Downtown High-Rise” Spaces 4 Learning, 05.01.2021 | |
| “High Art” Modern Luxury Chicago Interiors, April 2021 | |
| “U.S. Building of the Week: The Momentary” world-architects.com, 04.12.2021 | |
| “The Momentary” Hinge Magazine HK, 286 – Print, Spring 2021 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects complete Chicago’s Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School expansion” World Architecture News, 02.19.2021 | |
| “Residence for Two Collectors by Wheeler Kearns Architects” Design Essentia Magazine, Jan/Feb 2021 | |
| “A Penthouse with 270° Views of Downtown Chicago” Plain Magazine, 01.26.2021 | |
| “Chicago Adaptive-reuse Project Supports Those Experiencing Homelessness or Poverty” Retrofit, 01.06.2021 | |
| 2020 — | “Tower of Power” Commercial Construction & Renovation, Dec. 2020 issue |
| “Inside Chicago Penthouse Redesigned by Wheeler Kearns” Elite Traveler, 12.29.2020 | |
| “At Crystal Bridges’ New Satellite Location, A Former Cheese Factory Is Reborn…” Landscape Architecture Magazine, Nov. 2020 issue | |
| “An art-filled penthouse with views over Chicago” Elle Decor (Spain), 11.17.2020 | |
| “Chicago Adaptive Reuse Project Provides a Modern Refuge for People in Need” gb&d Magazine, 11.11.2020 | |
| “Residence for Two Collectors is an art-filled Chicago penthouse” Dezeen, 11.07.2020 | |
| “Design project: Inside a chic, industrial-inspired penthouse loft with skyline views” Livingetc, 10.27.2020 | |
| “Two Art Collectors Take Residence in this Stunning Chicago Penthouse” Plain Magazine, 10.26.2020 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects Designs a Home for This Chicago Nonprofit” Metropolis, 09.28.2020 | |
| “Lake Michigan Home pairs soft, weathering materials with black windows and doors” Builder Magazine, 09.10.2020 | |
| “Hinsdale Residence” Restless Living, Volume 34 | |
| “Education for Real-World Experience: Incorporating schools into mixed-use urban developments can…” ARCHITECT Magazine, 09.03.2020 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects clusters gabled units for Lake Michigan house” Dezeen, 09.03.2020 | |
| “Adaptive Reuse: From Factory to Art Center in Arkansas” gb&d Magazine, 08.04.2020 | |
| “Chicago’s Bid to Reinvent the Corner Store” Bloomberg CityLab, 07.31.2020 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects blends architectural heritage and religious symbolism at the Bernard Zell…” The Architect’s Newspaper, 07.29.2020 | |
| “The Momentary, a cheese-factory-turned-contemporary-art-venue, reopens its doors “ The Architect’s Newspaper, 07.08.2020 | |
| “Factory Fresh” Architectural Record Magazine, July 2020 | |
| “A Penthouse in the Sky” DIGS, 06.26.2020 | |
| “Suns End Retreat” Restless Living Magazine, Volume 17 | |
| “A Glassy Highland Park Abode Takes Prairie School Literally” Chicago Magazine, 04.20.2020 | |
| “Sustainable design featured at Mansueto High School in Chicago” PRISM, 04.17.2020 | |
| “Out of a Former Cheese Factory, The Momentary Fuels a Modernist Turn in Bentonville” Metropolis, 04.08.2020 | |
| “Decommissioned cheese factory becomes a contemporary art space Wheeler Kearns Architects designed…” BD+C Magazine, 03.02.2020 | |
| “Inside Fashion Designer Pamella Roland’s Extraordinary Chicago Townhouse” Galerie, 03.02.2020 | |
| “Englewood Fresh Market Will Bring Locally Sourced Produce And Ready-To-Eat Meals To 63rd Street” Block Club Chicago, 03.02.2020 | |
| “This Former Cheese Factory Is Now a Leading Contemporary Arts Venue” Architectural Digest, 2.24.2020 | |
| 2019 — | “A Luxury Penthouse in the Sky of Chicago,” Architectural Digest, 12.13.19 |
| “Elemental: Wheeler Kearns Architects fashion an eye-filling yet understated home…” Apsire Design and Home Magazine, Winter 2019-2020 | |
| “Procession on the Lake,” Residential Design Magazine, December 2019 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns designs low-lying Ravine House for nature lovers in Illinois,” Dezeen, 10.22.19 | |
| “The Magic of This Duplex Apartment Is in Its Walls,” Metropolis, 09.06.19 | |
| “Inside 11 of our favorite homes across the U.S.,” Curbed, 07.01.19 | |
| “Top 5 Homes of the Week with Wondrous Wood Accents,” Dwell Online, 05.10.19 | |
| “Edgewater’s Care For Real Undergoing Major Renovations to Accommodate Growing Clientele,” Edgeville Buzz, 4.25.19 | |
| “Five-Pipe ‘Umbilical Cord’ Connects Two Mid-Rise Chicago Structures,” Multifamily Executive, 4.12.19 | |
| “The Night Ministry Makes a Big Move to Enhance Services,” The Night Ministry Blog, 04.10.19 | |
| 2018 — | “A Momentary Update,” Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 12.16.18 |
| “Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Unveils the Vision for the Momentary, a New Contemporary Arts Venue,” ArtfixDaily, 9.13.18 | |
| “Want a more equitable city? Try food-oriented design,” Curbed, 5.10.18 | |
| “Alluring Meets Affordable With These 5 Chicago Prefabs,” Dwell, 03.15.18 | |
| 2017 — | “The Brick and Mortar of Blended Learning,” Building Design + Construction Magazine, 9.12.17 |
| “Architectural Details: Wheeler Kearns’ “The Alice” Is an Acoustical Retreat,” Architizer, 09.08.17 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns’s coffee and record shop Purple Llama boasts a giant faceted ferrous steel bar,” The Architects Newspaper, 08.31.17 | |
| Lakeview Pantry – 2017 Inspirations Awards Winners, Contract Magazine, July/August Issue | |
| “This grand Wicker Park home started as a 19th-century carriage house,” Curbed, 07.31.17 | |
| “Renovation & Rebirth at Intelligentsia’s Historic Monadnock Cafe,” Sprudge, 06.06.17 | |
| “Lakeview Pantry Brings Good Design and Food to Those in Need,” ARCHITECT Magazine, 05.08.17 | |
| “Lakeview Pantry Wins Major Design Award, And It’s No Surprise Why,” DNA Info, 03.09.17 | |
| “MORE Vinyl Coming to Wicker Park – And This Shop Has a Cafe, Too,” DNA Info, 01.23.17 | |
| “Old Police Station Becomes ‘Story of Redemption’ As New Children’s Theatre,” DNA Info, 01.18.17 | |
| “Douglas fir and careful detailing fill this Michigan retreat designed by Wheeler Kearns,” The Architects Newspaper, 01.09.17 | |
| 2016 — | “Arlington Heights church gets first-of-its-kind skylight” Daily Herald, 11.01.16 |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects: Designing the future from the home of sustainable construction,” US Builders Review, Summer 2016 Edition II | |
| “Chicago Architecture Foundation exhibits offer plans to revitalize wards in this area,” Gazette, 09.03.2016 | |
| “Reimagining the Modern Classroom: The seats, space, and stuff that idyllic learning environments are made of,” The Atlantic, 09.02.2016 | |
| “Arlington Heights Lutheran churches launch expansion projects,” Chicago Tribune, 08.16.2016 | |
| “Lakeview Pantry’s New Home is Now Open, And It Is Gorgeous,” DNAInfo, 06.21.16 | |
| “Food Pantry Also Hands Out Bouqets of Dignity” Chicago SunTimes, 06.20.16 | |
| “Goodman introduces ‘The Alice’ education Center” Chicago Tribune, 05.18.16 | |
| “Crystal Bridges Museum to Open New Space for Contemporary Art” The New York Times, 03.29.16 | |
| “ULX: Beyond Car-Dependent Buildings” Urban Land Magazine, 02.22.16 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Architects turn a Chicago Warehouse into a Youth Arts Campus” The Spaces, 02.09.16 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns Renovation of a Chicago Non-profit Arts Center wins 2016 SEED Award” Architect’s Newspaper, 02.03.16 | |
| “New Doors, Bright Futures: Marwen’s Expansion Opens Doors to Chicago Youth” Chicago Architect Magazine, Jan/Feb 2016 | |
| 2015 — | “Nonprofit Marwen’s Expansion Gives Underserved Youths Room to Bloom” DNA Info, 12.17.15 |
| “Lumberyard turned into 21st-Century Charter School” BD+C Magazine, Oct. 2015 Issue | |
| “Child’s Play: An urban daycare draws inspiration from the natural world,” gb&d Magazine, Sept/Oct 2015 | |
| “To Succeed, School Design Must Replicate Real-World Environments,” BD+C Magazine, July 2015 Issue | |
| “The Past, Present and Future of School Design,” EdSurge, 07.06.15 | |
| “Tear Down This Wall! A New Architecture for Blended Learning Success,” EdSurge, 06.29.15 | |
| “A Charter School Model Different from Most,” Chicago Tonight WTTW, 06.15.15 | |
| “Space X3, Great Divide Living Area,” Luxe Home Magazine, Summer 2015 vol 13, issue 3 | |
| “Millennials don’t need all that parking space,” Chicago Sun Times, 06.04.15 | |
| “Chicago’s Intrinsic Schools showcase distinctive, patterned facade finished in Valspar’s Fluropon coatings,” Glass on Web, 05.12.15 | |
| “A Trip to the Windy City and Intrinsic Schools,” Next Generation Learning Challenges, 04.24.15 | |
| “Chicago School Designed with Blended Learning in Mind,” Education Week, 04.13.15 | |
| “1611 West Division Street,” Architects Newspaper, 04.08.15 | |
| “At a Chicago Charter, Personalized Learning is Intrinsic,” Impatient Optimists, 04.02.15 | |
| “Transit-Oriented Apartment Projects a Positive Development,” Chicago Tribune, 03.21.2015 | |
| “How Intrinsic Schools is Breaking the Laws of School Innovation,” edSurge, 03.12.2015 | |
| “Breaking the Mold: New High School for ADHD/LD Students,” ADDitude, 02.20.15 | |
| “An Old Frame for New Ideas,” Architectural Record Magazine Schools of the 21st Century, January 2015 | |
| 2014 — | “Chicago’s First Transit-Oriented Development,” Commercial Property Executive, 09.24.2014 |
| “A Coffee Shop Bares All,” LD+A Magazine, August 2014 | |
| “No Parking Ahead,” Chicago Architect Magazine, July | August 2014 | |
| “Open > Intelligentsia,” Architects Newspaper, 07.30.2014 | |
| “Balanced Equation,” Luxe Home Magazine, 04.26.2014 | |
| 2013 — | “Change of Place” Chicago Sun-Times, 10 2013 |
| “Happy Medium” Luxe, Fall 2013 | |
| “Design of Our Times” CS Interiors, Fall 2013 | |
| “In the Details: A Lakefront Life” Design Bureau July 2013 | |
| 2012 — | “What Lies Beyond” Home & Architectural Trends, Vol. 28 No. 7, Summer 2012 |
| “Museum Quality” CS Interiors, Summer 2012 | |
| “25th Annual Architectural Showcase 2012” Athletic Business, 06 2012 | |
| “Auto Motivated” Chicago Home + Garden, Spring 2012 | |
| 2011 — | “History Class” CS Interiors, Fall 2011 |
| “Field of Dreams” Chicago Home + Garden, Summer 2011 | |
| 2010 — | RE:CRAFTED Interpretations of Craft in Contemporary Architecture and Interiors, The Monacelli Press, 2010 |
| “Arts & Architecture” Interior Design, 03 2010 | |
| “Muchin Prep – From Retail to Education” Illuminate, 01/02 2010 | |
| 2009 — | “High Resolution” Metropolitan Home, 06 2009 |
| “Mastering The Open Floor Plan” Elle Decor, 06.08.2009 | |
| “Hockey is heading west” Chicago Journal, 02.12.2009 | |
| 2008 — | Case Study 1875, self-published, 2008 |
| Integrated Design in Contemporary Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008 | |
| “2008 Chicagoans of the Year” Chicago Tribune, 12.28 2008 | |
| “Wheeler Kearns epitomizes simplicity and innovation” Chicago Tribune, 12.28 2008 | |
| “Quand le design est und Art” LeDevoir, 12.27 2008 | |
| “Easy Living” Luxe Magazine,Winter 2008 | |
| “Dialogue in Time: Krause Music Store” Architectural Record,07 2008 | |
| “Extending Life Cycle and Other Sustainable Green Benefits of Masonry Construction” Masonry Edge, 5/6 2008 | |
| 2007 — | The Historic Chicago Greystone, City Design Center, 2007 |
| “Keeping Design in Harmony” Crain’s Chicago Business, 09.24 2007 | |
| “Ten Modern Masterpieces” Chicago,09 2007 | |
| “Healing the Spirit of a Troubled Building” Chicago Tribune,07.29 2007 | |
| “High Art” Chicago, 06 2007 | |
| “Sense of Arrival” Trends, Spring 2007 | |
| 2006 — | “Sleek Divides” Midwest Home Chicago, Summer 2006 |
| 2005 — | Out of the box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, City Design Center, 2005 |
| Housing/Single-Family Housing, Birkhauser, 2005 | |
| Celebrating the American Home: 50 Great Houses from 50 American Architects, Taunton Press, 2005 | |
| “Good (Not So Clean) Fun” Landscape Architecture, 12 2005 | |
| “Two-Part Harmony” Electronic House, 08 2005 | |
| “Wraparound Roxy” Electronic House, 05 2005 | |
| “30 Things We Love” Chicago Tribune Magazine, 04.03 2005 | |
| “Past and Present” Custom House, 04 2005 | |
| 2004 — | “High Rise Apartment in Chicago Gets a Material Facelift” Options, Fall 2004 |
| “Auf Hohem Niveau” AD Architectural Digest, 06 2004 | |
| “Ideal Perspective” House & Garden, 04 2004 | |
| “High Light” lakeshoredesign, Spring 2004 | |
| 2003 — | The House to Ourselves: Reinventing Home Once the Kids are Grown, Taunton Press, 2003 |
| 25 Houses Under 2500 Square Feet, Harper Design International, 2003 | |
| 40: Houses, Thunder Bay Press, 2003 | |
| “happy return” residential architect, 09/10 2003 | |
| “Senior Centers that are both helpful and hip” Chicago Tribune, 07.22 2003 | |
| “Communing with Nature” Trends, Spring 2003 | |
| 2002 — | Influence Across Fields: The Chicago Architectural Journal 10, The Chicago Architectural Club, 2002 |
| “The Rebirth of Cool” AD Architectural Digest, 10 2002 | |
| “Beverly’s Artful Debut” Chicago Tribune Magazine, 10 2002 | |
| “A work of art buoys Beverly” Chicago Sun-Times, 09.22 2002 | |
| “Life After Mies” CS Chicago Social, 09 2002 | |
| “rustic origins” residential architect, 07 2002 | |
| “8 honored for neighborhood development” Chicago Tribune, 03.17 2002 | |
| “Penance for Projects Past” Competitions, Winter 2001/2002 | |
| 2001 — | “Field of Vision” Custom Home, 11/12 2001 |
| “Artists in Residence” Chicago, 10 2001 | |
| “Cityscape” Home, 06 2001 | |
| “Ship Ahoy in Chicago” Profiles, Summer 2001 | |
| “Five win Green Homes for Chicago Competition” Architectural Record, 03 2001 | |
| “The greening of Chicago, 5 architecture firms meet city’s challenge” Chicago Tribune, 01.31 2001 | |
| “Green Homes for Chicago” Environmental Building News, 01 2001 | |
| 2000 — | The Best of American Houses, Kliczkowski, 2000 |
| Positions in Architecture: The Chicago Architectural Journal 9, The Chicago Architectural Club, 2000 | |
| “City to pay for five new ‘green’ homes” Chicago Sun-Times, 10.19 2000 | |
| 1999 — | Ten Houses: Wheeler Kearns Architects, Rockport Press, 1999 |
| The New American Apartment II, Whitney Library of Design, 1999 | |
| The New American Cottage: Innovations in Small-Scale Residential Architecture, Whitney Library of Design, 1999 | |
| Single-Family Housing: The Private Domain, Birkhauser, 1999 | |
| “Winds of Change” World Architecture, 09 1999 | |
| “Back to the Future” Custom Home, 09/10 1999 | |
| “A Glulam-Frame House” Fine Homebuilding, 08/09 1999 | |
| “Castles in the sand” Chicago Tribune, 08.17 1999 | |
| “Siting Houses in Hard Places” Architectural Record, 04 1999 | |
| “Chicago Townhouse Remodeled for Modernist Graphic Designer” Architectural Record, 01 1999 | |
| “Flexibility in Performance Hall Design” Change Order, 01 1999 | |
| 1998 — | “All Things French” Chicago Tribune Magazine, 02.15 1998 |
| 1997 — | The New American House 2: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction, Whitney Library Press, 1997 |
| 1996 — | “Here’s to the Little Guys” Contract Design, 07 1996 |
| “The Order of Things” Chicago Tribune Magazine, 1996 | |
| 1995 — | The New American House: Innovations in Residential Design and Construction, Whitney Library Press, 1995 |
| Casas Internacional 35: 10 Casas de dos jovenes estudios norteamericanos Victoria Casasco, Wheeler Kearns, Kliczkowski, 1995 | |
| “North Avenue Residence: Chicago” Ascent, Fall 1995 | |
| “Museum functions as a city for children” Chicago Tribune, 10.05 1995 | |
| “Concrete Chic: Tough Enough for Business and Family Life” Chicago Sun-Times, 07.21 1995 | |
| 1994 — | Casas Internacional 2, Kliczkowski, 10 1994 |
| “Una casa nel bosco a Camp Madron nel Michigan, USA” Domus, 05 1994 | |
| Turn of the Century Home, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, 1994 | |
| 1993 — | “Grand Plans made for new Kids’ Museum” Chicago Sun-Times, 03.02 1993 |
| 1992 — | “Elevated Simplicity” Architecture, 06 1992 |
| 1991 — | Rumors About the American House, Pacific-Sakata, 1991 |
| 1990 — | “The sunshine kid” Chicago Tribune, 05.27 1990 |