Team
Partner
Ann Lui is an architect and founding principal of Future Firm. Previously, she practiced at SOM, Ann Beha Architects, and Morphosis Architects. She has held teaching positions at SAIC, University at Buffalo, and was the Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University. Ann was co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018 titled Dimensions of Citizenship. She co-edited Public Space? Lost and Found (2015) and Log 54 “Coauthoring” (2022). Ann was recently named Newcity’s “Designer of the Moment” (2018) and Crain’s “40 Under 40” (2018). She holds an SMArchS from MIT and a BArch from Cornell University. She is a member of the Steering Committee for the Metropolitan Planning Council’s Zoning and Land Use assessment, the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund’s Advisory Committee, and a member of the Advisory Committee for the State of Illinois Asian American and Pacific Islander Business Collective (IAAPIBC).
Partner
Craig Reschke, AIA is an architect and founding principal of Future Firm. Previously, Craig was a project architect at SOM and RODE Architects, where he led the design of buildings at many scales in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to his work at Future Firm, Craig also co-founded Hem House to bring contemporary residential projects to market with design-forward projects that reimagine the housing industry through architecture, construction, and user experience. He holds a MLA from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, where he graduated with the Jacob Weidenmann Prize, and a BArch from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
Principal
Linda Chávez is an architect and principal at Future Firm leading design for projects across scales, with a focus on civic and community driven spaces. She has developed her career in Chicago, where she has worked with Gensler, JGMA and completed award winning work for Northeastern Illinois University, Columbia College Chicago, and Northwestern University. Linda’s commitment to the community extends far beyond her project work – as a Latino, female architect – she is focused on creating democratic spaces that attend and understand the intersectionality between feminism and racism, especially for the Latino community in the US. She has been recognized as Crain's 2022 notable executives of color in construction and commercial real estate. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Tec de Monterrey, her Master in Project Management from Northwestern University and holds an Honorary Doctorate degree in Arts by Columbia College Chicago.
Associate
Jovana Crnomarković 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.
Associate
Donna Ryu is a Korean-American architect. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Maryland and a Master of Architecture & Certificate in Urban Design from the University of Virginia. Gratefully, design has always been part of her upbringing - her mother went to art school and has a love for interior design; her father is a skilled tailor and has an innate aptitude for renovation and construction. Together, they run a small tailor shop and liquor store which allowed Donna the opportunities to learn through travel - her experiences have placed her in South Korea, China, and India to name a few. Her love of everything outdoors, climbing, and hip hop (particularly the glittery era of 90s hip hop) run deep. Home is wherever she is at the time but her roots are in Maryland.
Associate
Claire Wagner is an architect driven by a belief in architecture’s potential to make a positive public impact. She brings a multidisciplinary perspective and commitment to collaborative, equitable, and sustainable design outcomes in the civic realm. Her professional experience spans typologies and scales, from single-family residences to large-scale cultural, institutional, and educational projects. With a liberal arts background in art history and psychology as well as teaching experience in secondary education, Claire did not take the direct route to architecture. She earned her Master of Architecture from Rice University in Houston. Her research has taken her to Japan, Paris, and back to Chicago for her thesis focused on designing sites of community care, collective ownership, and resilience in closed schools.
Designer
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.
Designer
YunWoo Kim is an architectural designer with a background in visual communication who is drawn to how place and memory shape the built environment. Born and raised in Malaysia, he spent much of his early life traveling throughout Southeast Asia absorbing the region’s layered histories and vernacular architectures. These experiences continue to shape his perspective on architecture, not just as a physical framework, but as something inseparable from its cultural and historical context. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he completed his undergraduate thesis, "The Mile-Long Living Room”. The project explored an innovative approach to senior housing, in partnership with a local non-profit, proposing modular unit typologies and community-focused programming.
Designer
Daniela is an architectural and urban designer, whose work bridges buildings, public space, and research, with a focus on accessibility and ecological resilience.
Working across Monterrey, New York, and Chicago, she has contributed to projects at multiple scales, including the O’Hare Airport project with STL. Her research extends across the Americas and Asia, examining the intersection of urban systems, landscape, and the built environment.
Daniela holds a Master of Science in Architecture Studies in Urbanism from MIT and a Bachelor of Architecture from UDEM, where she also teaches urbanism.
Office Coordinator
Tami has over thirty years of experience in construction, with experience at all levels of office management and coordination. Tami received her degree in Business Management and has developed personal and professional growth with various sized companies. Her strength is in supporting the goals and visions of a business with emphasis on implementation and follow through.
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