Craig Brandt is an architect and adjunct professor. His work and teaching focus on adaptive and regenerative design projects as well as cross-disciplinary design processes in arts and design. His tenure in the Chicago School as a former principal of HBRA Architects has given him a unique insight into its workings, and his award-winning practice work includes civic, government, higher education, and museum projects in various contexts. He has recently lectured, moderated, and presented his work internationally along with current issues in the public realm including preservation issues for Docomomo US where he served as Co-chair for the 2021 National Symposium. 

Justin is an architectural historian with experience in historic preservation and cultural resource management and currently works for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Justin served as Docomomo US Chicago Chair from 2020-2023 expanding the breadth of its board of directors, its programs, and its strategic vision. He also has presented his work at the Docomomo US National Symposium. His professional experience includes historic preservation compliance; architectural surveys; and compliance documentation for federal and state agencies as well as historic preservation consulting. Justin is on the Issues Committee of Landmarks Illinois and an advisory committee member of the Glessner House Museum.

Patrick is an Editor for Forgotten Chicago, an organization researching and exploring Chicagoland’s overlooked built environment and modern architecture, notably from the 1980s. From 2013 to 2017 Patrick was on the Editorial Advisory Board of the book Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America, published by the Chicago Art Deco Society, 2018. Patrick has collaborated on programming with the Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University, the Society for Industrial Archeology, AIA Chicago, and Preservation Chicago. Patrick holds a Bachelor’s in Communications and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Jeff is a financial advisor and planner with Junkins Mercer Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors. He has a lifelong interest in architecture and love of the Modern Movement. Since 1992, he has lead architecture tours as a docent with the Chicago Architecture Center. He is also a member of the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago and a past president of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago.

Serge is an architect and engineer focused on contemporary design and the conservation of 20th Century architectural heritage. He has worked on building projects in Florida, Texas and Illinois and has been a Docomomo US member since 2012. He has presented projects and conservation research at several Docomomo US Symposia and other conferences. Serge is a member of the Association for Preservation Technology and has served as a commissioner on the Riverside (IL) Historical Commission. He is currently working on the restoration of the 1930’s modernist Benda House in Riverside. Serge served as the Docomomo US/Chicago Board Chair from 2016-2020.

Donna is a current Professor and former Dean of the College of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology. She teaches undergraduate studios and a seminar on Contemporary Chicago Architecture. Her focus is on the political and social benefits of design excellence. During her tenure as Dean at IIT she reinvigorated and updated the pedagogical program. She played a key role in IIT’s comprehensive program of campus building restoration and renewal. Before IIT, Donna was Dean at the Tulane School of Architecture and served on the New Orleans CBD Historic District Landmarks Commission. She is a Peer Reviewer for the GSA.

Elizabeth is an architectural historian based in Chicago. Through her historic preservation practice, she works in the public and private sector consulting clients on the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA). In 2018, Blasius worked on Hurricane Harvey recovery in Texas, conducting fieldwork on damaged historic buildings and providing consultation and mitigation to lessen the risk of damage in future climate violence events. Blasius is the former midwest editor of The Architect’s Newspaper and has had her writing featured in The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times and Curbed Chicago. She is a founder of the James R. Thompson Center Historical Society.

Richard is a lawyer with experience in preservation and historic resources law. He practices law in the Chicago office of Neal & Leroy, LLC. Richard teaches Historic Preservation Law in the Master’s degree program of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the University of Chicago Law School. Previously, he served as counsel to the Chicago Landmark Commission and is on the Board of the Chicago Art Deco Society, where he has been a member since its founding.

David is an architect focused on sustainable design. After graduating from the Illinois Institute of Technology he worked for Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, and Lohan Associates before founding his own practice in 2000. In addition to a portfolio of a wide range of building types, David has worked on the renovation of several modern buildings, including the E1 building at IIT and Mies van der Rohe’s Promontory Apartments, which he led to Chicago Landmark status.

Marin R. Sullivan (PhD, University of Michigan) is a Chicago-based art historian, curator, consultant, and educator. She specializes in the histories of modern and contemporary sculpture, especially its interdisciplinary, intermedial dialogues with photography, design, and the built environment. Sullivan is the Director of the Harry Bertoia Catalogue Raisonné and was the co-curator of Harry Bertoia: Sculpting Mid-Century Modern Life, organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center. She is the author of Alloys: American Sculpture and Architecture at Midcentury (Princeton University Press, 2022) and Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism (Routledge, 2017) as well as numerous catalogue essays and articles in publications including American Art, Art History, History of Photography, the Journal of Curatorial Studies, and Sculpture Journal.

Marcos is a director at Envision Unlimited in Chicago. His focus is in advocacy for people with autism and developmental disabilities. This includes collaboration with diverse community partners such as the Society of Smallness, Illinois Humanities and the Architecture Biennial. Marcos is an artist as well. He has performed at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art and the National Museum Mexican of Art. He has given presentations at World Business Chicago and IIT and serves as a consultant for the promotion of accessibility. Marcos serves on the Auxiliary Board of the National Museum of Mexican Art.

Max is Director of Research & Special Projects at Preservation Chicago where he focuses on elevating communities and architecture underrepresented by historic preservation. He is a graduate of New York University in London’s Historical & Sustainable Architecture program where his thesis “Burdened Architecture: Treating Historical Trauma Through Preservation and Reuse” received the Gavin Stamp Memorial Award for Outstanding Thesis. He was also honored as a Mildred Colodny Diversity Scholar by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and is currently a member of the Central Park Theater Restoration Committee.

Ryan is an assistant professor of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a registered architect. Her research, teaching, and design work focus on adaptive reuse as an urban strategy and experimental representation of time and duration in buildings. She also writes about the history of preservation and reuse, the evolution of the idea of solitude in an urban context, and the history of intellectual crossover between biology and architecture. Her recent writing has been published in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, Early Modern Literary Studies, Pidgin, and the book Ruskin’s Ecologies. 

Sofia carries a passion for architectural history in both personal and professional spheres. After a tenure with the South Dakota SHPO as a Historic Preservation Specialist Sofia is a Historic Tax Credit Consultant with Ryan LLC (formerly MacRostie Historic Advisors) where she assisted and witnessed the successful rehabilitation of significant architectural resources for continued use. In December of 2022 she joined Docomomo’s programming committee planning a variety of events and engaging with Chicago’s community.