Profile

Joanne Bauer, President

Bill Latoza, Vice President

 

BauerLatoza Studio works with a wide array of clients, including state and local governments and private entities.  The firm concentrates in the following major areas:  architecture, building evaluations & triage, historic preservation, landscape architecture, sustainable design, urban design and planning. Our staff includes licensed architects and landscape architects, graduate architects and administrative personnel.

The firm's architectural undertakings include institutional projects, park structures, and residential design. Evaluation & triage projects range from schools to theaters, commercial and multi-family residential structures. Historic preservation projects consist of a wide range of building types, from schools to skyscrapers.  The Firm has a growing portfolio of sustainable projects, including the development of an entire town, large civic structures, and even a garden for luxury condominiums. Site and landscape architecture endeavors include parks, corporate sites, residential developments and school campuses. Urban design and planning projects are comprised of framework plans, master plans and design guidelines. Additionally, the firm's management experience involves guideline specifications, priority assessments, construction management, scope and budget development, and construction observation services.

Firm principals Joanne Bauer and Bill Latoza founded BauerLatoza Studio as a Women-Owned Business Enterprise in 1990. Quickly recognized by peers and clients alike for their promising collaboration, the partners were honored in 1993 with the Young Architect Award by Progressive Architecture. BauerLatoza Studio is a Certified Women-Owned Business with The City of Chicago, and the states of Illinois and Indiana. Additionally BauerLatoza can Self-Certify applications for building permits in the City of Chicago.

President Joanne Bauer directs the architecture, planning, landscape and site design projects of the firm. Prior to founding BauerLatoza Studio, she was an architectural designer for Perkins & Will, on projects including the new Umm Al Qura University in Saudi Arabia and the AIA award-winning design for Frankel and Company offices in Chicago.

Vice President Bill Latoza heads architecture, historic preservation and LEED efforts for BauerLatoza Studio. Before founding this firm, he was Senior Architectural Designer for the Chicago Park District, where his new harbormaster building in Chicago’s Burnham Harbor was honored by Architectural Record in 1990 as one of America’s Ten Best Public Buildings.