Pete Landon, FAIA, LEED AP

Adjunct Professor

plandon@uic.edu

Peter Landon FAIA, LEED AP, founder and principal of Landon Bone Baker Architects, is known for his community based, inner city planning, development, and design work. Along with his firm, Peter has been consistent and innovative in bringing well conceived and sustainable planning and design along with giving a strong sense of ownership to the residents of homeless shelters, daycare centers, educational facilities, and a wide variety of new and rehabbed affordable, subsidized, and market rate urban housing developments. With the belief that quality design is critical on all levels, he has successfully balanced context, technology, design, environment and economy in his work.

Parallel to the inner city design work, Peter has produced many award winning homes, apartment, and furniture designs. It has always been his intention to bring the same level of design care to the small projects as is brought to the larger developments. To that end the firm has a furniture company that produces various designs for many of the homes, offices, and institutional designs with which the firm is involved.

His and the firm's work have won a number of design awards including several for subsidized, market rate and private housing designs. The work has been exhibited and published widely over the years. Peter is an Adjunct Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago, and he has been a regular critic at Illinois Institute of Technology. He regularly lectures and presents material at various organizations locally and nationally. Peter is currently a member of the Historic Greystone Initiative, an original member of the City Design Matters panel, is currently a member of the Chicago Design Initiative, and is an Associate Director of the City Design Center, a multi-disciplinary research, education, and service program in the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Peter is a Past President of the Chicago Architectural Club, and was Chairman of the Chicago AIA Design Committee for 5 years. He is a past board president and founding board member of archi-treasures - a collective of artists, architects, educators, and community organizers who are in service to Chicago's neighborhoods.