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Foundations complete at @southsidecommunityartcenter . Can’t wait to see the steel go up next ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 @lindabchavez #letsbuild

Builder: Brown & Momen + @berglundconstruction
Civil: Engage Civil
Structural: Rockey Structures

Today's Employer of the Day is Future Firm @futurefirm. Check out their current job listings for an Architectural Designer in Chicago. Project: Hem House. Photo: Daniel Kelleghan. Image courtesy of Future Firm.

#Archinect #ArchinectJobs #ArchinectEOTD #ArchitectureJobs #ChicagoJobs

Hey 👋

We’re hiring in multiple roles. Looking for team members with great taste, collaborative spirit, and are passionate nerds about architecture. Help us spread the word! #letsgo

Super excited to welcome Jessie Jacobe @jessie.jacobe to the team at Future Firm. We are thrilled that Jessie brings his experience leading cultural and education projects, as well as his collaborative spirit and good eye for great design. 🎉🎉

Jessie Jacobe is a Chicago native and architectural designer who continues to live and work in the city. He has built his career working across a wide range of project types and scales, from large master plans and 400-meter twin towers to education buildings and exhibition design. Prior to joining Future Firm, Jessie worked at Studio Odile Decq, SOM, and JGMA, gaining experience on both global and community-focused projects. In recent years, his work has shifted toward collaborations with nonprofit clients, with a focus on socially impactful design. His recent projects include Neal Math + Science Academy in North Chicago and CircEsteem in Uptown. While his experience spans many areas of architecture, Jessie is particularly drawn to a human-centered approach that prioritizes the needs of underserved communities. He is known for his ability to think expansively, take creative risks, and develop ideas grounded in thoughtful research and careful execution. Jessie holds a M.Arch I - Master of Architecture degree from the University of Kansas and has studied internationally at Universität Stuttgart and the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Val de Seine.

Who’s next?
Seguimos revelando el line-up de #Concéntrico2026, que del 18 al 23 de junio activará Logroño a través de nuevas intervenciones en el espacio público.

El nuevo equipo participante es @futurefirm, el estudio con sede en Chicago fundado por Ann Lui y Craig Reschke, junto a Linda Chávez Baca como principal. Su práctica combina arquitectura, investigación y estrategia, trabajando con organizaciones culturales, iniciativas cívicas y comunidades para imaginar nuevas formas de ciudad. A través de un enfoque basado en ideas, desarrollan proyectos que amplían el campo disciplinar, conectando diseño, producción y pensamiento crítico para impulsar modelos urbanos más diversos y abiertos.

Su participación en Concéntrico 2026 cuenta con el apoyo de @mascontext

ENG
Who’s next?
We continue revealing the #Concéntrico2026 line-up, which from June 18–23 will activate Logroño through a new series of public space interventions.

The new participants are Future Firm, a Chicago-based practice founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke, with Linda Chávez Baca as principal. Their work brings together architecture, research, and strategy, collaborating with cultural organizations, civic initiatives, and communities to imagine new urban futures. Through an ideas-driven approach, they expand the scope of architectural practice, connecting design, production, and critical thinking to foster more diverse and open models of the city.

Their participation in Concéntrico 2026 is supported by MAS Context

Who’s next?
Seguimos revelando el line-up de #Concéntrico2026, que del 18 al 23 de junio activará Logroño a través de nuevas intervenciones en el espacio público.

El nuevo equipo participante es @futurefirm, el estudio con sede en Chicago fundado por Ann Lui y Craig Reschke, junto a Linda Chávez Baca como principal. Su práctica combina arquitectura, investigación y estrategia, trabajando con organizaciones culturales, iniciativas cívicas y comunidades para imaginar nuevas formas de ciudad. A través de un enfoque basado en ideas, desarrollan proyectos que amplían el campo disciplinar, conectando diseño, producción y pensamiento crítico para impulsar modelos urbanos más diversos y abiertos.

Su participación en Concéntrico 2026 cuenta con el apoyo de @mascontext

ENG
Who’s next?
We continue revealing the #Concéntrico2026 line-up, which from June 18–23 will activate Logroño through a new series of public space interventions.

The new participants are Future Firm, a Chicago-based practice founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke, with Linda Chávez Baca as principal. Their work brings together architecture, research, and strategy, collaborating with cultural organizations, civic initiatives, and communities to imagine new urban futures. Through an ideas-driven approach, they expand the scope of architectural practice, connecting design, production, and critical thinking to foster more diverse and open models of the city.

Their participation in Concéntrico 2026 is supported by MAS Context

Who’s next?
Seguimos revelando el line-up de #Concéntrico2026, que del 18 al 23 de junio activará Logroño a través de nuevas intervenciones en el espacio público.

El nuevo equipo participante es @futurefirm, el estudio con sede en Chicago fundado por Ann Lui y Craig Reschke, junto a Linda Chávez Baca como principal. Su práctica combina arquitectura, investigación y estrategia, trabajando con organizaciones culturales, iniciativas cívicas y comunidades para imaginar nuevas formas de ciudad. A través de un enfoque basado en ideas, desarrollan proyectos que amplían el campo disciplinar, conectando diseño, producción y pensamiento crítico para impulsar modelos urbanos más diversos y abiertos.

Su participación en Concéntrico 2026 cuenta con el apoyo de @mascontext

ENG
Who’s next?
We continue revealing the #Concéntrico2026 line-up, which from June 18–23 will activate Logroño through a new series of public space interventions.

The new participants are Future Firm, a Chicago-based practice founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke, with Linda Chávez Baca as principal. Their work brings together architecture, research, and strategy, collaborating with cultural organizations, civic initiatives, and communities to imagine new urban futures. Through an ideas-driven approach, they expand the scope of architectural practice, connecting design, production, and critical thinking to foster more diverse and open models of the city.

Their participation in Concéntrico 2026 is supported by MAS Context

Who’s next?
Seguimos revelando el line-up de #Concéntrico2026, que del 18 al 23 de junio activará Logroño a través de nuevas intervenciones en el espacio público.

El nuevo equipo participante es @futurefirm, el estudio con sede en Chicago fundado por Ann Lui y Craig Reschke, junto a Linda Chávez Baca como principal. Su práctica combina arquitectura, investigación y estrategia, trabajando con organizaciones culturales, iniciativas cívicas y comunidades para imaginar nuevas formas de ciudad. A través de un enfoque basado en ideas, desarrollan proyectos que amplían el campo disciplinar, conectando diseño, producción y pensamiento crítico para impulsar modelos urbanos más diversos y abiertos.

Su participación en Concéntrico 2026 cuenta con el apoyo de @mascontext

ENG
Who’s next?
We continue revealing the #Concéntrico2026 line-up, which from June 18–23 will activate Logroño through a new series of public space interventions.

The new participants are Future Firm, a Chicago-based practice founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke, with Linda Chávez Baca as principal. Their work brings together architecture, research, and strategy, collaborating with cultural organizations, civic initiatives, and communities to imagine new urban futures. Through an ideas-driven approach, they expand the scope of architectural practice, connecting design, production, and critical thinking to foster more diverse and open models of the city.

Their participation in Concéntrico 2026 is supported by MAS Context

Who’s next?
Seguimos revelando el line-up de #Concéntrico2026, que del 18 al 23 de junio activará Logroño a través de nuevas intervenciones en el espacio público.

El nuevo equipo participante es @futurefirm, el estudio con sede en Chicago fundado por Ann Lui y Craig Reschke, junto a Linda Chávez Baca como principal. Su práctica combina arquitectura, investigación y estrategia, trabajando con organizaciones culturales, iniciativas cívicas y comunidades para imaginar nuevas formas de ciudad. A través de un enfoque basado en ideas, desarrollan proyectos que amplían el campo disciplinar, conectando diseño, producción y pensamiento crítico para impulsar modelos urbanos más diversos y abiertos.

Su participación en Concéntrico 2026 cuenta con el apoyo de @mascontext

ENG
Who’s next?
We continue revealing the #Concéntrico2026 line-up, which from June 18–23 will activate Logroño through a new series of public space interventions.

The new participants are Future Firm, a Chicago-based practice founded by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke, with Linda Chávez Baca as principal. Their work brings together architecture, research, and strategy, collaborating with cultural organizations, civic initiatives, and communities to imagine new urban futures. Through an ideas-driven approach, they expand the scope of architectural practice, connecting design, production, and critical thinking to foster more diverse and open models of the city.

Their participation in Concéntrico 2026 is supported by MAS Context

Welcoming Jovana Crnomarkovic, AIA to the Future Firm team!!! ✨✨✨

Jovana Crnomarkovic is an architect born in Belgrade, Serbia and raised in the American Midwest, deeply influenced by her life between these two vastly different places. Her upbringing among the post-war architecture of Belgrade shaped her interest in the narrative fictions created through design, and led to her thesis work titled “Imagining the Archive: Bogdanovic In Belgrade,” in which she staged correspondence with the Yugoslavian architect after a visit to his first monument in the Sephardic cemetery of Belgrade. In her professional life, she has experience working on commercial retail and food & beverage hospitality projects which has helped her develop her eye for material and millwork details. She received her B.S. in Civil Engineering from Northwestern University and her M.Arch from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

✨Meet @futurefirm, one of the 2026 Emerging Voices✨

Ann Lui and Craig Reschke founded Future Firm in Chicago in 2015, and Linda Chávez Baca joined the firm as a principal in 2023. Working closely with mission-driven non-profits, community residents, and small-business owners, the firm’s portfolio includes residential projects, arts and culture venues, and makerspaces. Future Firm’s work seeks to expand the traditional scope of architectural practices, from raising capital and political will to proposing zoning amendments.

Tomorrow, hear from Future Firm and fellow awardee @french2d about their practices, followed by a conversation with Felecia Davis (@fadometer).

🗓️ Thur, Mar 5
🕑 12:30 pm ET
📍 Online
🎟️ Free and open to all. CEUs are available for League members who attend each event in its entirety.

Register at the link in bio.
#EV26 #EmergingVoices2026

Video editor: @darlenachiem

There’s only two seasons in Chicago — friends, we’re not in winter anymore ☀️☀️☀️ sun rising over foundation & elevator core work at @southsidecommunityartcenter !!

📸 @lindabchavez
Builder: Brown+Momen Berglund

Ahh! Super excited to share that Future Firm has been named one of the 2026 Emerging Voices by The Architectural League of New York @archleague ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 A biennial award recognizing eight individuals and firms across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico with distinct design voices shaping architecture, landscape, and urbanism.

Thrilled to be in such great company alongside this year’s other winners: @bld.us @coadaptive @cooperacion_comunitaria @darcyjonesarchitects @french2d

Mark your calendars: Emerging Voices lecture via Zoom on March 5, 2026 at 12:30 p.m.

Architecture is both a way of imagining more vibrant & heterogeneous futures for our cities, and is also the means to build that world, together. Onward & upward. 💫

Bronzeville's South Side Community Art Center (SSCAC) is the nation’s only remaining WPA-era Black art center with its original mission and in its original location. A cornerstone of creativity, the center showcases established artists and nurtures emerging creators.

Join us as we explore the SSCAC's 85‑year legacy, from its 1940 founding by artists like Dr. Margaret Taylor‑Burroughs and Archibald Motley, to the vision behind its $15M transformation.

📅 February 25, 6pm
📍 CAC Lecture Hall

Link in bio.

@southsidecommunityartcenter

It’s out there!!! 🤩🤩 So excited to be supporting Oil Lamp Theater @oillamptheater in this next chapter. The beloved storefront theater will keep its beloved “homey” vibe (it was founded in a living room) while tripling in seat count.

Thank you to ED Jay Pastucha & the Oil Lamp Board for trusting us with this important moment for downtown Glenview & the Chicagoland theater community.

FF Team: @phidubs @lindabchavez
With @schulershook, dbHMS, Rockey Structures, @terraengineering

1/1/2026 — ✨ Happy new year from the team at Future Firm ✨

We had a great year in 2025. Ribbon cutting at Revolution Workshop @revolutionworkshop . Broke ground at South Side Community Art Center @southsidecommunityartcenter . Named best small firm, Midwest, by @archpaper . Top 50 Architects and Designers, @aninteriormag . Awarded the Richard H. Driehaus Community Impact Award at @lisc_chicago which we receive on behalf of all of our clients, consultants, collaborators, and broader community who are working to build what late urbanist Michael Sorkin called, “the city—the greatest collective work of art.”

Our infinite gratitude to the team(s) that are making these projects happen, often against the odds. #letsbuild