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Carol
Crandall opened her firm in 1993 with a primary focus on high-end
custom residential work in the city of Chicago and Chicago’s north
shore communities, loft conversions, and multi-family, mixed use
developments. Architect John Ritzu joined the firm in 1996,
and together they have expanded the focus of their practice to
include affordable and market-rate multi family housing. While
this comprises the body of their own work in Chicago, they
have each practiced in notable architectural firms in Chicago,
Pittsburgh and London. They have been project architects
for a variety of work including new shopping
malls, a mid-rise corporate headquarters building, elderly
housing, corporate interiors, and special projects such
as converting London townhouses into private hotels and
documenting vernacular architecture for the Library of Congress.
Their experience and education equip them to respond to both new and familiar challenges with energy and intelligence.
Carol Crandall, Principal:
Carol Crandall received her Bachelor of Architecture degree from Carnegie-Mellon
University in 1981, and her Masters in Science in the
History of Modern Architecture from the University of London
in 1989. She has worked for Chicago Associates, Planners and
Architects, Loebl Schlossman and Hackl/Hague Richards Architects,
Bone Morris Architects in London, and Onque’/Harai Architects
in Pittsburgh. Construction costs for projects she has worked
on have ranged
from $250,000 to $8.4 million. She is a past president and current
member of Chicago Women in Architecture, and the exhibition
collaborative CARY. She has exhibited her work in the James
R. Thompson Building and at the Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago,
and has been a visiting lecturer and critic at the University
of Illinois at Champaign and Chicago campuses.
She is a licensed architect in Illinois.
John
Ritzu, Principal:
John Ritzu received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from
Carnegie-Mellon University in 1977, and his Masters in
Science in the History of Modern Architecture from the University
of London in 1989. After moving to Chicago in 1984, he
joined Pappageorge Haymes Architects where he was an associate
and senior project manager until 1996. His personal experience
includes the design and/ or execution of 14 major multi family
housing projects in the Chicago area, ranging in size from 4
to 70 units, with budgets from $.5 million to
$8.5 million. He has also been an adjunct assistant professor in the School
of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago Campus,
and was a full time instructor in the Architecture Department
of the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie-Mellon University. He
has served on the board of directors of the Edgewater Community
Council, and Edgewater Development Corporation.
He is a licensed architect in
Pennsylvania.
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