May 2021
AIA National Housing Award
Independence Library and Apartments

November 2020
AIA Distinguished Building Award
Independence Library and Apartments

November 2020
AIA Distinguished Building Award
Gallery House

November 2020
AIA Divine Detail Award
Independence Affordable Housing Balconies

September 2020
AIA/ALA National Library Building Awards
Independence Library and Apartments

May 2020
First Place, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design
Independence Library and Apartments

February 2020
Building of the Year World Architects
IIT Innovation Center

January 2020
AIA National Honor Award for Architecture
IIT Innovation Center

October 2019
AIA Distinguished Building Award
IIT Innovation Center

October 2019
AIA Distinguished Building Award
Courtyard House

October 2019
AIA Divine Detail Award
ETFE facade at IIT Innovation Center

October 2019
AIA National Innovation Awards
IIT Innovation Center

April 2019
AIA/CAE National Education Facility Design Awards
IIT Innovation Center

April 2019
Record Houses 2019
Architectural Record
Gallery House

January 2018
John Ronan appointed the John and Jeanne Rowe Endowed Chair Professorship
Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture

November 2017
Named number 4 in Architect Magazine "Top 50 in Design"
Architect Magazine

October 2017
AIA Divine Detail Award
Blu Dot

July 2017
Architect Magazine R+D Awards
IIT Innovation Center Dynamic ETFE Facade

March 2017
2017 Architecture Award Winner
American Academy of Arts and Letters

October 2016
AIA Divine Detail Award
Erie Elementary Charter School

August 2016
2016 Honor Award
Faith & Form
Chapel of St. Ignatius

January 2016
Selected as 1 of 7 finalist firms for the Obama Presidential Center
Obama Presidential Center

October 2014
AIA Chicago Unbuilt Design Award
Urban Filter Office Building

April 2014
Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Nominee
Poetry Foundation

April 2014
Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Nominee
Gary Comer Youth Center

October 2013
AIA Distinguished Building Award
South Shore International College Preparatory High School

October 2013
AIA Interior Architecture Award
Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention Exhibition

December 2012
2012 Architect Magazine Annual Design Review
Citation
Poetry Foundation

October 2012
AIA Distinguished Building Award
Poetry Foundation

October 2012
AIA Interior Architecture Award
Poetry Foundation

October 2012
AIA Divine Detail Award
Poetry Foundation

August 2012
The American Architecture Award for 2012
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design
Poetry Foundation

February 2012
2011 Best New Building
Friends of Downtown
Poetry Foundation

January 2012
2012 AIA Institute National Honor Award for Architecture
Poetry Foundation

October 2011
AIA Distinguished Building Award
Gary Comer College Prep

August 2011
The American Architecture Award for 2011
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design
Gary Comer College Prep

May 2011
2011 Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence
Silver Medal Award

The Gary Comer Youth Center/Gary Comer College Prep  

March 2011
2011 AIA/CAE Educational Facility Design Awards Program
Award of Merit

Gary Comer College Prep

February 2011
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Design
First Place

Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School

December 2010
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Patron of the Year Award

Comer Science and Education Foundation
Gary Comer College Prep

November 2010
Best of Year Award 2010
Interior Design
Chapel of St Ignatius Loyola

October 2010
Green Good Design Award
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design
The Gary Comer Youth Center

October 2010
AIA Interior Architecture Award
Chapel of St Ignatius Loyola

October 2009
AIA Honor Award
Chicago 2016 Olympic Plan

October 2009
AIA Interior Architecture Award
Yale Steam Laundry Condominiums

May 2009
Award of Excellence
Green Roofs for Healthy Cities
The Gary Comer Youth Center

January 2009
AIA National Honor Award
The Gary Comer Youth Center

October 2008
AIA Unbuilt Architecture Award
The Old Post Office

October 2007
AIA Distinguished Building Award
The Gary Comer Youth Center

October 2007
AIA Divine Detail Award
The Gary Comer Youth Center

October 2007
AIA Sustainability Award
The Gary Comer Youth Center

October 2007
AIA Distinguished Building Award
First Place

Akiba-Schechter Jewish Day School

2007
American Architecture Award
The Chicago Atheneum Museum of Architecture & Design
The Gary Comer Youth Center

2007
The Chicago Building Congress Merit Awards
First Place

The Gary Comer Youth Center

2006
The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award for Architectural Excellence
First Place

The Gary Comer Youth Center

2006
Greenworks Award
City of Chicago
The Gary Comer Youth Center

2006
Young Chicago Exhibition
at the Art Institute of Chicago

January 2005
Emerging Voices
The Architectural League of New York

January 2005
P/A Award Citation Honorable Mention
52nd Annual P/A Award Program for Architecture Magazine
for Perth Amboy High School project

January 2005
AIA Distinguished Building Award
for House on the Edge of a Forest project

October 2005
AIA Interior Architecture Award
for Coach House project

February 2004
Winner of the two-stage
Perth Amboy High School Design Competition

August 2001
I. D. Design Award
Honorable Mention
for Redsquared project

1999
Design Vanguard
Architectural Record magazine

April 1999
Winner in the Townhouse Revisited Design Competition
Graham Foundation for the Advancement of the Fine Arts

May 1991
Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship Recipient
Harvard University Graduate School of Design