05 14 25
Freedom Defense Center opens in Roseland
Chicago Sun Times | Michael Puente
Impact
In The News
05 13 25
Roseland now home to first-of-its-kind community law office.
WGN9 | Angelica Sanchez, Gabriel Castillo
12 04 24
Best of the Best: Revealing the winners of AN’s 2024 Best of Design Awards
The Editors, The Architect's Newspaper
11 12 24
10 17 24
Katherine Darnstadt Chairs Jury for AIA Columbus Ohio Design Awards
AIA | Columbus Ohio
09 22 24
New West Side Boys & Girls Club is a Quintessential Chicago Building for the 21st Century
Chicago Tribune | Edward Keegan
06 21 24
Chicago’s West Side Gains a New Community Anchor With Rusu-McCartin Boys & Girls Club
Architectural Record | Edward Keegan, AIA
06 13 24
05 22 24
Latent + Kimley-Horn awarded contract to implement Hazel Crest Creative Arts Center
Hazel Crest Arts District
02 29 24
02 28 24
'I get looks of disbelief': women shaking up architecture worldwide.
Oliver Wainwright
02 08 24
Emerging Voices 2024
The Architectural League
02 01 24
12 23 23
08 21 23
West Garfield Park Plan, adding fresh food at former Aldi site.
Chicago Sun Times David Roeder
08 18 23
$20M State Food Desert Program
Chicago Tribune Dan Petrella
05 11 23
"Chicago's INVEST South/West Initiative yields early initial projects, but not with communication breakdowns along the way"
Anjulie Rao, The Architect's Newspaper
04 17 23
"Listen Louder: Rethinking the Role of Today's Citizen Architect"
Anjulie Rao, Architect Magazine
03 10 23
"New Designs for the 'Missing Middle'"
John Hill, world-architects.com
03 06 23
02 20 23
"Hyde Park Kilwins Will Create 'Chocolate Garden' For Community Events After $250,000 Boost From City"
Maxwell Evans, Block Club Chicago
01 26 23
11 16 22
"5200 W Chicago breaks ground"
Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago
10 20 22
"Latent Design is making change in Chicago"
Eva Hagberg, Wallpaper
10 19 22
"One Nation, Under Renovation"
Zach Mortise, Bloomberg City Lab
11 20 22
"Plan Commission adopts Western Ave Corridor Study"
Lukas Kugler, Urbanize Chicago
06 14 22
“Landmarks approves rehab at 5200 W. Chicago”
Bee Ricketts, Chicago Yimby
06 03 22
"Sleeping Beauties: Chicago's Adaptive Reuse"
Patrick Sisson, AIA Architect
05 31 22
"20 Best Architecture Firms in Chicago"
Editors, Architizer Journal
04 26 23
Garfield Park Residents Tell Developers They Want a Grocery Store to Replace Closed Aldi
Trey Arline, Block Club Chicago
03 24 22
"Des Moines plans to demolish Grubb YMCA for new rec center, but needs to raise $9 million"
Kim Norvell, Des Moines Register
03 24 22
"New elevated nature trail eyed for West Side"
David Roeder, Chicago Sun Times
03 07 22
"Design 50 2022: Exhibitors and Advocates"
Vasia Rigou, NewCity Design
02 21 22
"Plans for New Rec Center on Des Moines North Side"
Melody Mercado, Des Moines Register
01 24 22
"'Why not dream for more?': 4 plans presented with different amenities for the Grubb YMCA building"
Melody Mercado, Des Moines Register
07 22 21
03 17 21
"West Siders Looking Forward To Blues Museum, Laramie Bank Overhaul - But Local Groups Want More Input Moving Forward"
Pascal Sabino, Block Club Chicago
03 08 21
"A West Side Landmark Will Be Redeveloped Into A Museum, Cafe and Business Incubator"
Pascal Sabino, Block Club Chicago
12 30 20
Design Trust Chicago seeks to address systems beyond structures
Zach Mortice, The Architect's Newspaper
07 02 20
"Rebuilding Trust"
Patrick Sisson, AIA Architect
02 04 20
"The Architecture of Labor: Working Conditions and the New Normal"
Eric Baldwin, ArchDaily
11 07 18
"Chicago DOT Develops Parklet Prototype to Encourage Hanging Out"
Rachel Kaufman, Next City
01 16 17
"How to Become a Social Impact Designer Without Going (Permanently) Broke"
Gilad Meron and Mia Scharphie, Next City
07 23 15
"Latent Complexity: Denise Scott Brown and Katherine Darnstadt (Latent Design) on Archinect Sessions #39"
Amelia Taylor-Hochberg, Archinect
05 24 13
"Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good"
Cultural Affairs and Special Events, City of Chicago
01 01 13
"Citizen-Architect"
Marcia Faye, Illinois Tech Magazine
Honors + Awards
2024
2024 Village of Homewood TOD Plan Healthy & Active Community Award
American Planning Association | Illinois Chapter
2024
2024
Design Excellence Award | BGCC
AIA Chicago
2024
Community Development & Partnership Award | BGCC
Federation of Women Contractors
2024
Latent Awarded 2024 Best of Practice for Architect (Small Firm) – Midwest
The Architect's Newspaper
2024
Merit Award Commercial Construction Under $50 Million | BGCC
Chicago Building Congress
2024
IIT MCHAP Cycle 5 | Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize | Nominated Project
BGCC | Heart of the City | Alfresco South Chicago
2024
Emerging Voices 2024
The Architectural League
2023
2023 Pride Award New Construction Chicago/Suburbs under $20M
CISCO Construction Industry Service Corporation
2023
Heart of the City: Art and Equity in Process and Place ASLA Award of Excellence in Urban Design
American Society of Landscape Architects
2023
2023 Community Design Impact Award
Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
2019
Best Ephemera for "Boxshops"
Friends of Downtown
2018
AIGA Fellow for Katherine Darnstadt
AIGA Chicago
2017
Neighborhood Award Winner for "Boombox"
Chicago Innovation
2016
Small Projects Awards Citation of Merit
AIA Chicago
2016
2015
2014
40 Under 40 for Katherine Darntadt
Crain's Chicago
2014
Dupont Emerging Leader Fellow for Katherine Darnstadt
Design Futures Council
2014
100 Social Impact Visionaries
GOOD Magazine
2013
Young Architects Honor Award
AIA National
2013
2012
2012
2012
Young Alumnus Award for Katherine Darnstadt
Illinois Institute of Technology
2012
ENR Midwest 2012 Top 20 Under 40
John Gregerson
2012
2011
i4design Emerging Leader Award for "The Altruist"
2010
Emerging Leader Award for Katherine Darnstadt
U.S. Green Building Council
2010
Bridge Fellow for Katherine Darnstadt
AIA Chicago
Publications
2024
100 Women: Architects in Practice
Riba Books
2021
The City Creative: The Rise of Urban Placemaking in Contemporary America
Michael H. Carriere and David Schalliol, University of Chicago Press
2012
Design Like You Give a Damn [2]
Architecture for Humanity, Abrams Books
2012
Giving Guide
Crains Chicago Business
2012
Issue Nº3 Platescrapers
SOILED
2011
Issue Nº2 Skinscrapers
SOILED
2010
Area Chicago #10: Institutions & Infrastructures
Half Letter Press
2010
Diversity and Inclusion Guidelines
U.S. Green Building Council
Speaking Engagements
2024
Student Lecture Series
Virginia Institute of Technology
2024
Emerging Voices
Architecture League New York
2023
Keynote Saving Places Conference
Colorado Preservation Inc.
2023
Chicago Histories, Chicago Futures
Design Summit
2020
Designing our Future
Chicago Women in Architecture
2020
Raising Products: African American and Latinx Designers
Design Museum of Chicago
2020
Notions of Practice: Next Chicago
Illinois Institute of Technology
2019
Equity and Design
ASLA Illinois
2019
2019
Hyde Lecture: Architecture Of
University of Nebraska College of Architecture
2018
Social Impact Session
SXSW
2019
Let's Talk Business
Yale School of Architecture
2018
Visiting Artist Series: Katherine Darnstadt
College of DuPage
2017
Architecture Symposium: Design + Public Impact
NOMAS at UIUC
2017
Public X Design
2016
2013
Forum Keynote "Resolution"
AIAS
2013
Pardon Me, I Am Trying To Get Your Attention
AIA Greenville
2013
Social Design
AIGA Chicago
2013
Public Interest Architecture in Practice
Chicago Women in Architecture
2012
Leadership Institute
AIA Illinois
2011
Designing Public Spaces
Chicago Ideas Week
2011
Here and There
Structures for Inclusion 10+1
2010
Dirty Talk: Soil as a Pedagogical Model
Pecha Kucha Chicago
Exhibitions
2023
Crossing Lines
CAB Chicago Architecture Biennale
2023
Missing Middle Infill Housing (Row Homes)
Chicago Architecture Center
2021
Par Excellence Redux: The Front 9
Elmhurst Art Museum
2012
Spontaneous Interventions
Venice Biennale American Pavilion
2012
Structures of Inclusion 12 Honorable Mention
SEED
2011
Design In Action
Philadelphia Center for Architecture
2011
Structures for Inclusion 10+1
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