Dan Wheeler
Professor
wheelerd@uic.edu
BArch, Rhode Island School of Design
Dan Wheeler, FAIA has taught as an Adjunct Associate Professor within the School of Architecture since 1992, being elevated to Associate Professor in 2001. He teaches design, building science, drawing, and design/build. He served as the Interim Director of the School from 2006-7. He is co-author with Clinical Associate Professor Bill Worn of the schools integrated design/building science curriculum. He is past Interim Director of the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, in Chicago, and remains on the Advisory Board of the Chicago Architecture Club and the Marwen Foundation. Professor Wheeler lectures both nationally and abroad.
Wheeler is a practicing architect and is a principal of the Chicago firm Wheeler Kearns Architects. Prior to establishing WKA in 1987, he worked in the office of Machado Silvetti in Boston and the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill where he held the rank of Associate and Studio Head. In 1985 he received the CCAIA Young Architect Award and was elevated to AIA Fellow in 1998. The work of Wheeler Kearns has received numerous CCAIA Distinguished Building awards, three Driehaus Awards and the CCAIA Firm Award in 1996. Work of the firm is regularly in print, including the monograph Wheeler Kearns Architects, Ten Houses (1999).
