Dirk DenisonDirk Denison, FAIA is the Founding Principal of Dirk Denison Architects, a Professor at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and Director of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP) at IIT. Since its founding in 1990 based in Chicago with an office in New York, Dirk Denison Architects has built a national practice with a reputation for design excellence through a wide range of building types and scales, specializing in Residential, Retail, Hospitality, Institutional and Commercial design. Dirk Denison Architects approaches each project as an ecological integration, bringing together the needs and desires of the client with the planning of space, the careful selection and use of materials and an energy-conscious focus. This approach to design is evident in the entirety of the project from the landscape, to the building envelope, to the interiors. Read More Read Less