Publications

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 PlaceChicago 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