18 November 2022

JRA selected to design Grand Crossing Innovation Center

15 November 2022

Denver Globeville Affordable Housing and Library design advances

10 November 2022

JRA selected to design Forbes Avenue Building in Pittsburgh

14 July 2022

JRA selected for Globeville Library & Affordable Housing in Denver

24 June 2022

The Urban Room: Enriching the Public Realm in the Private Project

John Ronan talk at the AIA Convention

  

Friday 24, June

7 June 2022

Announcing our new book:

Out of the Ordinary
the work of John Ronan Architects

Purchase

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24 September 2021

John Ronan receives University of Michigan Taubman College’s Distinguished Alumnus Award

12 July 2021

John Ronan on Architectural Record’s Podcast: Design:ED

Listen Here

15 July 2021

Construction Breaks Ground on JRA's Chicago Park District Headquarters

Chicago Park District Headquarters

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5 July 2021

John Ronan Architects Designs New Lemont Bridge

Lemont Bridge

13 November 2020

AIA Distinguished Building Award

Independence Library and Apartments

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13 November 2020

AIA Distinguished Building Award

Gallery House

13 November 2020

AIA Divine Detail Award

Independence Affordable Housing Balconies

17 September 2020

2020 AIA Awards for Architecture (Kaplan Institute)

Architect Magazine

17 September 2020

AIA/ALA Library Building Awards

Independence Library and Apartments

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23 October 2019

John Ronan to Speak at Obama Foundation Summit at Kaplan Institute

23 September 2019

Independence Library and Apartments Opens

John Ronan Architects

12 September 2019

John Ronan announced as Books that Built Chicago panel speaker

Chicago Collections Consortium

11 June 2019

151 North Franklin

Architect Magazine

2 April 2019

Gallery House named winner in Record Houses 2019

Architectural Record

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February 2019

John Ronan Architects Selected to Design New Chicago Park District Headquarters

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151 North Franklin Completed

John Ronan Architects

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25 October 2018

IIT Innovation Center Opens

John Ronan Architects

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Gallery House Completed

John Ronan Architects

17 May 2018

Courtyard House

Architectural Record

5 February 2018

John Ronan named ACSA Distinguished Professor

The Association of Collegiate Schools in Architecture names winner of the the ASCA Architectural Education Award of Distinguished Professor

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2 January 2018

John Ronan has been appointed the John and Jeanne Rowe Endowed Chair Professorship of the College of Architecture at IIT
 

1 November 2017

The Poetry Foundation | John Ronan Architects

Modern In Denver

13 October 2017

AIA Divine Detail Award

Blu Dot

21 September 2017

John Ronan: Recent Works

Chicago Architect

11 July 2017

Architect Magazine R+D Awards

IIT Innovation Center Dynamic ETFE Facade

 

30 March 2017

John Ronan Announced as 2017 Architecture Award Winner

American Academy of Arts and Letters

01 march 17

151 North Franklin steel topped out

John Ronan Architects

10 February 2017

John Ronan announced as Neocon keynote speaker

The Architects Newspaper

21 November 2016

John Ronan Architects Chicago

E-Architect 

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14 October 2016

AIA Divine Detail Award

Erie Elementary Charter School

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14 July 2016

Setting the Pace

Modern Luxury Interiors

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10 May 2016

Questions for an Architect: John Ronan

Chicago Architecture Foundation

28 March 2016

Who will design the Obama Presidential Center?

Obama Foundation

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21 March 2016

Return to Splendour

MONOCLE

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21 December 2015

What could this Chicago architect's Obama library look like? 

Crain's Chicago Business

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14 November 2015

821 Stanley Tigerman Sketches 821

John Ronan, panelist

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13 November 2015

Demolition at the corner of Happy and Healthy

151 North Franklin

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October 2015

Chicago Architecture Biennial
Leaf Lounge

Chicago, Illinois

October 2015

Q & A: Chicago Architect John Ronan

Frank Lloyd Wright Trust

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1 August 2015

the Poetry Foundation book released
Centerline Press, Center for American Architecture and Design

University of Texas at Austin

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June 2015

IIT Innovation Center: Redefining an Icon

ASCE - Civil Engineering Magazine

26 June 2015

John Ronan interviewed on WBEZ Morning Shift

Emerging Trends in Architecture

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May 2015

IIT Innovation Center

Architect Magazine

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15 May 2015

Ed Kaplan Family Institute for Innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship Exhibition

McCormick Tribune Campus Center at the Illinois Institute of Technology

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April 2015

Chicago Architecture Biennial

John Ronan Architects included in inaugural roster of international participants

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March 2015

Taking the High-Craft High Road

IIT Magazine

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October 2014

Erie Elementary Charter School

ArchDaily

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October 2014

Poetry Foundation in Chicago

DETAIL - Best of Detail: Glass

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October 2014

AIA Chicago Unbuilt Design Award

Urban Filter Office Building

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June 2014

ARCHITECT Visits: Poetry Foundation

Architect magazine

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April 2014

Poetry Foundation and Gary Comer Youth Center nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

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January 2014

Erie Elementary Charter School

Architectural Record

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December 2013

Iterations: John Ronan's Poetry Foundation

The Art Institute of Chicago

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October 2013

AIA Interior Architecture Award

Bertrand Goldberg: Architecture of Invention Exhibition

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October 2013

AIA Distinguished Building Award

South Shore International College Preparatory High School

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September 2013

GSD Alumni Q & A: John Ronan

Harvard University Graduate School of Design

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July 2013

John Ronan Architects selected as finalist for Design Architect for the McCormick Place Event Center Development

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December 2012

Poetry Foundation
2012 Annual Design Review

Architect

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November 2012

Encodings: The Work of John Ronan Architects

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island

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November 2012

Poetry Foundation in Chicago

DETAIL - 2012/05 Facades

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October 2012

AIA Distinguished Building Award

Poetry Foundation

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October 2012

AIA Interior Architecture Award

Poetry Foundation

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October 2012

Brave New City | Living Together

Metropolis Magazine

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October 2012
AIA Divine Detail Award
Poetry Foundation

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18 September 2012

An interview with architect John Ronan

Design Applause

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September 2012

Designing Pragmatism: An Interview with John Ronan

Arcade

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March / April 2012

Poetry in Notion

Chicago Architect

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January 2012

Mining Modernism for Students and the Community
South Shore International College Prep High School

Architectural Record

15 January 2012

Rising star John Ronan has risen

Chicago Tribune

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03 January 2012

Keeping the Muse in Business

New York Times

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November 2011

Open Verse
The Poetry Foundation

Architectural Record

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September / October 2011

Goldberg Going Up

Chicago Architect

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September 2011

Now Showing / Bertrand Goldberg

New York Times Style Magazine

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September 2011

Design on the Edge Exhibition

The Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, Illinois

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17 August 2011

Poetry's New Palace

The Wall Street Journal

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July 2011

Ballad of a Building

Chicago Magazine

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22 June 2011

Poetry Foundation featured on WTTW's Chicago Tonight

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January 2011

Gary Comer College Prep in Architectural Record

26 September 2010
Comer Prep shines as beacon of hope
Chicago Tribune
 

July 2010
Yale Steam Laundry Condominiums in Architectural Record
 

1 May 2010
Explorations: The Architecture of John Ronan
monograph published by Princeton Architectural Press released

 

May 2010
Buildings for Bards
The Architect's Newspaper
 

April 2010
New Austin school breaks the mold
Chicago Tribune
 

Spring 2010
Lens Crafters
CS Interiors
 

September 2009
Big. Bold. Visionary. Chicago Considers the Next Century
Chicago Tourism Center Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
 

August 2009
The Burnham Memorial Design Competition
The Field Museum
Chicago, Illinois
 

May/June 2009
Hamburg's five-sided Square
Chicago Architect
 

February 2009
Subtraction = Addition
Chicago Architect
 

Winter 2008/09
Interview
Competitions Magazine
 

December 2008
Interior Design Best of Year Award
Yale Steam Laundry
 

October 2008
Superb Reduction
Interior Design
 

August 2008
City taps top architects for prototype revision
Chicago Tribune
 

2008
Detail in Process, As Built
Princeton Architectural Press
 

March/April 2008
John Ronan ponders designing a home for verse
Chicago Architect
 

February 2008
John Ronan's bright and bold Gary Comer Youth Center supports an ambitious agenda on Chicago’s South Side
Architectural Record
 

December 2007
Chicagoans of the Year: Architect’s youthful dreams unfold in his mature work
Chicago Tribune
 

November 2006
Young Chicago Exhibition
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
 

October 2007
City’s new modern marvels win top design Awards
Chicago Tribune
 

September 2007
Ten Modern Masterpieces
Chicago Magazine
 

2007 Volume 3
The Gary Comer Youth Center
Arkhitekturny Vestnik Magazine (Russia)
 

May 2007
Chicago, Reinventing a Legacy
Blueprint
 

March 2007
Chicago Hope
Architect Magazine
 

December 2006
Miracle on 72nd Street
Metropolis
 

2006
Perth Amboy High School Design Competition Exhibition
Cornell University School of Architecture
Ithaca, New York
 

2006
Educational Facility
Archiworld Press
 

July 2006
Don’t Say Modern; Say Light, Air and Space
The New York Times
 

2006
Focus on Hafencity Hamburg
Hafencity Hamg Gmbh
 

June 2006
New Youth Center in Grand Crossing a Beacon of Optimism
Chicago Tribune
 

January 2006
The Diagram
Architectural Review
 

2005
The Contemporary Guesthouse
Edizioni Press
 

June 2005
If it Looks Like a Mausoleum...
Chicago Reader
 

June 2005
Vision Quest: Top local architects imagine a cool new future for Chicago
Chicago Sun-Times
 

March 2005
Emerging Voices
The Architect’s Newspaper
 

January 2005
52nd Annual P/A Awards Exhibition
Center for Architecture
New York, New York
 

January 2005
Perth Amboy High School
Architecture
 

January 2005
John Ronan saves a Coach House from certain death with a clever use of light, space and materials
Architectural Record
 

December 2004
Building on Tradition—John Ronan ennobles the warehouse with simple materials and Hebrew tradition for a Chicago school
Architecture
 

2004
Visonary Chicago Architecture
Chicago Central Area Committee Press
 

November 2004
Visionary Chicago Architecture Exhibition
Graham Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
 

October 2004
On the Boards: Gary Comer’s Youth Center
Architecture
 

July/August 2004
Ronan Raises the Bar
New Zealand Architecture
 

June 2004
Big & Green Chicago Exhibit
The Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, Illinois
 

May 2004
On the Boards: Perth Amboy High School
Architecture
 

April 2004
Perth Amboy High School Design Competition Exhibition
The Architectural League of New York
New York, New York
 

Spring 2004
Raising the Bar(s) in the Garden State
Competitions
 

April 2004
Chicago’s Bold Rebirth
Chicago Tribune
 

March 2004
Ones to Watch: These architects are sketching tomorrow’s Chicago
The Chicago Tribune
 

March 2004
Quality Control
Chicago Tribune Magazine
 

March 2004
Upset Victory in New Jersey
The Architect’s Newspaper
 

February 2004
City architect scores upset over 3 national rivals for $84 million dollar project
The Chicago Tribune
 

November 2003
Design Hits a High Note
Interior Design Magazine
 

September 2003
Chicago’s Architectural Revival is New Stars’ Chance to Shine
Chicago Sun-Times
 

July 2003
Singular Sensation
Chicago Tribune Magazine
 

May 2003
An Upgrade from Coach
Dwell Magazine
 

March 2003
Speculative Chicago Exhibition
Gallery 400
Chicago, Illinois
 

October 2002
Vanguards of Design
Shelter Magazine
 

September 2002
Chicago’s New Standout Architects
CS Magazine
 

August 2001
Redsquared
2001 Design Review

I. D. Magazine
 

January 2001
Chicago Architecture Club Members Show
I-Space Gallery
Chicago, Illinois
 

December 2000
John Ronan seeks the essence of space in structure and material
Architectural Record
 

April 1999
Young Turks have designs on the townhouse of tomorrow
Chicago Tribune