John Ronan John Ronan

John Ronan FAIA is the John & Jeanne Rowe Endowed Professor in Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and founding principal of John Ronan Architects in Chicago. He is known for his abstract yet sensuous work which explores materiality and atmosphere.

John holds a Master of Architecture degree with distinction from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His work has been exhibited internationally, covered extensively by the international design press, and is the subject of three publications: Explorations, published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2010; The Poetry Foundation, published by the Center for American Architecture & Design at the University of Texas in 2015; and Out of the Ordinary, the work of John Ronan Architects, published by Actar in 2022. His firm has been the recipient of numerous design awards, including three AIA Institute National Honor Awards—for the Poetry Foundation, The Gary Comer Youth Center, and the Kaplan Center at IIT.

John was named Architecture Award winner by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2017 and in 2024 his firm was selected from an invited list of 54 architects from around the world to design the Fallen Journalists Memorial on the Mall in Washington.