Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen are Principals of UrbanLab, a collaborative office practicing architecture and urbanism.
UrbanLab has been the recipient of numerous honors including winning the City of the Future competition. UrbanLab’s current projects include a study for the implementation of fifty “Eco-Boulevards” (linear parks) throughout Chicago and a comprehensive masterplan for Aurora, the second largest city in Illinois. UrbanLab is also a research laboratory actively engaged in examining the City and the Chicago megalopolis. The research projects are an effort to document a broad informational context for those currently working on and/or thinking about the design and planning of Chicago.
Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen are both graduates of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) at Columbia University. Sarah Dunn is Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Martin Felsen is Associate Studio Professor at the College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Sarah Dunn and Martin Felsen were recently named Directors of Archeworks, Chicago’s alternative design school.
[last updated 20-Mar-10]