Martin Felsen Martin Felsen

Martin Felsen, FAIA, co-founded UrbanLab. He is a registered licensed architect in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Colorado, and New York. He was educated at Virginia Tech (B.Arch.), and Columbia University (M.S.-AAD). Martin is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a Professor in the Illinois Institute of Technology’s (IIT) College of Architecture.

After working for Eisenman Architects, Stan Allen Architects and 1100 Architects in New York, he and partner Sarah Dunn established UrbanLab, an architecture and urban design firm. UrbanLab aims to synthesize diverse methodologies, technical innovation, and hybrid vocabularies drawn equally from architecture and its complex urban and natural contexts. Built work to date includes houses, housing, mixed-use buildings, restaurants, installations, and urban infrastructural projects.

Martin’s work has been recognized nationally and internationally. Awards include first prize in the History Channel’s City of the Future Competition, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows Latrobe Prize, and many AIA Chicago design awards. Martin received the Dubin Family Young Architect Award in 2007 from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Chicago. In 2010, the Architectural League of New York named UrbanLab as an Emerging Voice. UrbanLab exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010 and 2012, and in the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015 and 2017. UrbanLab’s work is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago and MoMA PS1.