Creative Design Professional.
Human centered, highly collaborative, decisions based project management.
With comprehensive experience in all aspects of design and construction management as Owner, Architect and Contractor in private, public, developer and institutional settings as well as expertise in planning, design and leadership of large, complex projects and design teams.
Projects
727 W Madison
Project Manager/Senior Architect 727 W Madison, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago, IL. 5/16 to 6/19
495 unit, $135 million, 47 story, luxury rental apartments w/373 space parking podium, amenities, and 10ksf retail.
C40 Unity Place
Project Manager/Associate Principal C40 International Competition, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago, IL 5/20 to 3/21
206 unit (50% affordable) multi-family with roof top amenities, mixed use, 190 ksf, 18 stories, with urgent care clinic, real estate start up Incubator, restaurant and retail in podium base, with fully integrated park redesign, net zero carbon, hybrid heavy timber/concrete frame, geothermal, solar thermal, naturally ventilated, 100% electric tower.
Lurie Children’s Hospital
Project Manager/Associate Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, ZGF Architects LLP, Los Angeles, CA 10/06 to 2/09
1.25M gsf new children’s hospital, 25 stories, construction - $625M, total - $1B
Knapp Center
Director, Capital Planning, Renovations & Operations, Knapp Center for Bio-Medical Discovery, University of Chicago, Biological Sciences Division, Chicago, IL. 9/03 to 10/06.
330K gsf, 10 stories, $207M, cancer research and vivarium.
917 W Fulton
Project Manager/Associate Principal 917 W Fulton Market, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago, IL. 11/21 to 1/24
Shell and core commercial office in Fulton Market historical district with full basement, parking, exterior terraces, amenity floor, 4 public entries interconnected with skylit pedestrian walkway, and bridges interconnecting with renovation of adjacent historic loft building,
500 ksf, $100M, 11 story new construction, 6 story historic renovation.
Superior House, 360 W Superior
Project Manager/Managing Associate Superior House, 360 W Superior, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago, IL. 6/17 to 1/20
34 unit, 123 ksf, $35 million, 12 story, luxury condominiums with 63 parking spaces on two levels and amenities on 3rd and 12th floors.
633 S LaSalle
Project Manager/Managing Associate 633 S LaSalle, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago, IL. 12/17 to 1/24
117 units/381 beds plus amenities with restaurant and bar, 171 ksf,18 story, co-living, multi-family tower.
X Phoenix
Project Manager/Managing Associate X Phoenix, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Phoenix, AZ. 6/18 to 10/21
253 units/616 beds, 612 parking spaces on 5 levels plus two floors of amenities and two floors of Retail, 730 ksf, $100 million, 22 stories, co-living, multi-family tower
1315 N Branch
Project Manager/Managing Associate 1315 N Branch/CB2 HQ, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago IL. 6/17 to 6/18
Adaptive re-use/conversion of 188,000 square feet of existing high crane bay industrial buildings into a cutting-edge, multi-tiered, commercial, creative office complex in the historic Goose Island district of Chicago.
135,000 nsf leasable, multi-tenant office space w/dedicated entrances for each tenant in addition to an inter-connecting core link and entrance for MEP systems and access to 7,500 sf of amenities: indoor secured parking, bicycle room, fitness center, golf simulator, and rooftop deck.
Southbank
Project Manager/Associate Principal Southbank C, FitzGerald Associates Architects,Chicago, IL 4/22 to 1/24
450 units plus amenities, parking, co-working and restaurant on ground floor, 500,000 sf, 40 story, all electric, multi-family towers.
330 W Chestnut
Project Manager/Associate Principal 330 W. Chestnut, FitzGerald Associates Architects, Chicago, IL. 1/21 to 7/21
100 unit, 10 story, multifamily with rooftop amenity, retail and parking at grade, 100 ksf.
Sage Mass Ave
Designer Sage Boutique, historic Mass Ave district, Indianapolis, IN 4/04 to 9/04
High end women’s clothing boutique interior design, branding, marketing.
Fletcher Place Market
Student Masters Thesis, Neighborhood, Community and Sustainability, An Interactive Multimedia Presentation 2000
Sustainable mixed Use multi-family housing over a neighborhood scaled grocery and cafe’ with basement parking.
Black Sea Resort -Bulgaria
Foreign exchange student, international competition, visiting Professor Kevin Rhowbotham, Technical University Berlin, Germany 1996 to 1997
Proposal for the development of a vacation resort on the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria.
Interchange City West - Berlin
Foreign exchange student Studio competition, Institute for Klimagerechtes Bauen und Konstruktives Entwurf (Climate-friendly Building and Constructable Design), Prof. Dipl. Ing. Rainer Hascher, Technical University Berlin, Germany 1996 to 1997
Reimagination of the Zoologisher Bahnhoff in Berlin, Germany to integrate regional bus travel and facilitate interchanges and connections between that, local buses, transit lines, regional and international trains, rental auto and bicycles, shopping, food and beverage and hotel.
Three Houses
Student, studio, spring semester 1994 to 1995
Three residential sites were assigned from available properties in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. Mine was three adjacent through lots on a residential block with a 4’ change of grade from East to West.
About
Joe Hamm
Architect
Design Professional with comprehensive experience in all aspects of design and construction as Owner, Architect and Contractor in private, public, developer and institutional settings in addition to expertise in planning, design and leadership of large, complex projects and teams.
A creative and a natural leader who happened to be good at math and academics in addition to the arts, at the urging of others, Joe studied structural engineering at Purdue University in Indiana where he grew up. He moved on to construction management out of college, opting to work in the field as an Assistant Superintendent to learn how to put buildings together before becoming a construction project manager for a prominent Chicago GC/CM. He worked on commercial high rise, public, and institutional health care projects among others. Seeking greater involvement in the early conceptual stages of projects, he went to work for a former client managing design and construction of large public institutional projects. When the administration for which he worked left office, he enrolled in the College of Architecture at IIT to scratch the creative itch that had been haunting him all along.
He became a development manager on high rise multi-family projects for a prominent Chicago real estate developer - another former client - working half days to support himself through full time graduate architecture school. Subsequent to private development, he migrated to a prominent local university where he oversaw design and construction of medical research laboratories, med center renovations and master planning before becoming a project manager for ZGF Architects on the Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago. Following ZGF, he designed and developed food testing laboratories across the country during the Great Recession, and managed design of high rise multi-family and commercial projects for FitzGerald Associates Architects.
Thus, he turned early false starts into the advantage of becoming an Architect with real world experience as a builder and a developer with mastery of the underlying physics that make the best architectural designs work, while becoming inspired by the power of design to make the world a better place and improve people’s lives.
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