ERIK LEAHY
PROJECT DESIGNER, CHICAGO IL A SELECTION OF PROFESSIONAL WORK
ERIK LEAHY
STATEMENT
4757 N. Malden Street, #2N
Chicago, IL 60640
C: 714.273.2668
E: leahye19@gmail.com
Passionate architectural designer and urbanite with 10+ years of experience in multifamily project design, planning, and zoning approvals. Looking for a collaborative team-focused design environment.
EDUCATION
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Master of Architecture - May 2012
GPA 3.82/4.00
Alpha Rho Chi graduate honor medal recipient
Harry F. Cunningham Bronze Medal Finalist (top M.Arch thesis project)
Tau Sigma Delta Meda fnalist (top M.Arch body of work)
Bachelor of Science in Design - May 2010
GPA 3.713/4.00
University of Applied Sciences, Bremen
Masters program study abroad student - Winter Term 2008/2009 DAAD Study and Internship Scholarship Program
Omaha North Magnet High School
High School Diploma - May 2005
Magnet school program with focus on engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Via Chicago Architects + Diseñadores
Chicago, IL
June 2021 - August 2022
Job Title: Project Designer
FitzGerald
Chicago, IL
February 2013 - June 2021
Job Title: Associate
BCDM Architects
Omaha, NE
August 2012 - January 2013
Job Title: Intern Architect
Min|Day Architects (now Actual Architecture Co.)
Omaha, NE
May 2012 - June 2012
Job Title: Intern Architect / Model Fabricator
ATOM Design Studio
Omaha, NE May 2012 - July 2012
Job Title: Intern Architect
Project designer, team leader, and BIM manager at boutique frm focused on high-end residential, commercial, and industrial projects. Projects managed include condo development on Florida Gulf Coast, and hydroponic farm facilities around the country. Developed and maintained ofce BIM standards and project families while coaching colleagues throughout ofce on BIM project documentation and standards.
Conceptual and schematic design team leader, reporting to ofce Design Director. BIM lead for project teams. Design focus on residential and retail projects in Chicago and suburban region.
Worked on project teams involved with schematic design and construction documents for religious and pre-K educational projects in Nebraska and Iowa region.
Supervised in-house model shop producing display quality physical models for Red Barn Gallery and Community CROPS projects, and assisted with schematic design of various inprocess ofce projects.
Design development and fabrication project lead on ElevATE event installation piece in Omaha. Assisted in drafting construction document package for residential remodel project in Omaha.
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
UNL College of Architecture
Lincoln, NE
August 2010 - May 2012
Term: 4 Semesters
Job Title: Graduate Teaching Assistant
Despang Architekten
Hanno er, Germany
March 2009 - July 2009
Job Title: Student Intern
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha, NE
May 2007 - August 2008
Term: 2 Summers
Job Title: Student Intern (Facilities Maint. Department)
Pre-architecture Arch 210/211 design studio second year studio teaching assistant for Professor Brian Kelly at niversity of Nebraska - Lincoln. Course work focused on teaching fundamentals of architectural design, concepts, precedents, presentation critique, and use of digital and physical design tools.
Summer student internship part of study-and-internship SIP study abroad program in Germany. Responsible for design and presentation materials for competition entry. Pre-construction design development documentation for pre-cast concrete kindergarten.
Summer student intern two summers within facility management section of Operations Department for nion Pacifc Railroad.
HONORS, AWARDS, SERVICE & PUBLICATIONS
Chicago Arch & Design 16” Softball League
FitzGerald (and partner frms) team founder / captain 2013-2019
CANstruction Chicago
FitzGerald team co-captain 2014-2018 City and National award innders 2015, 2016, 2017
NeoCon Chicago
2016 ResiMercial: The multi-market appeal of amenity space co-presenter, FitzGerald
2014 Drinks Design LEGO Tower Champion Chicago Architecture Foundation
2013 team captain - ight attempted, unsuccessful Redbull Flugtag Chicago
Master of Arch. Thesis Publication
Into the Seam - The Architecture of Boundary MediaCities 4 Conference (2013), ni ersity of Bu alo Nature of Spatial Practices Conference (2013), Penn State ni ersity
KRob Arch. Delineation Competition
AIA Dallas
2011 Student Finalist
Project Hope Palestine
2009 olunteer nited Nations-sponsored NGO teaching English language and cultural e change dialogue within Palestinian Refugee Camps located in Nablus - the largest city within the est Bank.
DAAD Study and Internship Program
September 2008 - July 2009
Recipient of German go ernment education department year-long study and internship scholarship program. Study in Bremen, Germany and internship in Hanno er, Germany.
DESIGN SOFTWARE EXPERIENCE
USGBC Students / Emerging Green Builders
2008 collegiate architecture scholar honor society inductee Tau Sigma Delta Elected NL student chapter president
National Society of Collegiate Scholars
2006 collegiate scholar honor society inductee
Boy Scouts of America
Eagle Scout rank attained 2005
Revit modelling, documentation, standards and families AutoCAD Sketchup w/ Enscape Rendering TestFit multifamily computation Rhino Adobe InDesign Adobe Illustrator Adobe Photoshop Bluebeam Studio Teams Slack
3ELEVEN
RIVER NORTH CHICAGO, IL
Project Status: Built 2016
Client: The John Buck Company
Architect: FitzGerald (interior collab. with JGMA)
2 5 luxury apartment units above a parking podium in a 2 story cast-concrete tower. Facade system is a fullyglazed window wall with projected mullion caps and glazed-in metal panel.
INSPIRE WEST TOWN
WEST TOWN
CHICAGO, IL
Project Status: Under Construction 2022
Client: Bond Companies
Architect: FitzGerald
11 compact apartment units in a CFMF structure above a single story concete podium. The facade is composed of ACM panels with framed windows and a masonry and storefront podium.
NORTH + VINE
OLD TOWN
CHICAGO, IL
Project Status: Built 2018
Client: White Oak Realty Partners
Architect: FitzGerald
2 1 luxury apartment units above a parking and retail podium in a 11 story linear tower block. Facade composed with masonry and fully captured window wall with extended window returns.
SUPERIOR HOUSE
RIVER NORTH CHICAGO, IL
Project Status: Built 2018
Client: Ascend Real Estate
Architect: FitzGerald
12 story cast concrete tower housing luxury 1/ - oor condominiums, with a rigidly rational design expressed through an architectural cast concrete frame and detailed window wall metal slab edges covers.
HIGGINS ROAD
O’HARE
CHICAGO, IL
Project Status: Concept 2016
Client: Glenstar
Architect: FitzGerald
29 apartment units in a -story mid-rise suburban-style podium wrap building, on a clean slate site. The building is a CFMF structure above a precast parking garage, with a facade of fber cement panels and architectural precast panels.
KINGSBURY TOWER
CHICAGO, IL
Project Status: Concept 2021, Under Construction 2022
Client: White Oak Realty Partners
Architect: FitzGerald
A proposed tower concept for a -building PD site development. A bent tower massingresulting in varying apartment scales - is wrapped in both fully-captured framed window wall and sleek butt-glazed window wall to accentuate visual texture.
GOOSE ISLAND AREA
315 JEFFERSON
WEST LOOP
CHICAGO, IL
Project Status: Concept 2019
Client: N/A
Architect: FitzGerald
A facade concept study for a small mid-rise, mid-block apartment tower, using a varied composition of metal panel depth to lend visual texture and call back to the early days of the prototypical Chicago skyscraper.
SQUARE ROOTS v4
VARIOUS DISTRIBUTION WAREHOUSES
USA
Project Status: v3 design iteration Built 2022
Client: Square Roots
Architect: Via Chicago
Farm facilities for a hydroponic start-up company utilizing unitized highly-engineered container growzones plugged into a panelized processing headhouse. Design development took on an iterative, software-like versioning system to keep up with a tech-minded, design-minded, and evironmental-minded company focused on high-speed intelligent growth.
Square Roots operates a hydroponic farm facility utilizing 20 “grow zones” - climate controlled rooms created within custom-fabricated shipping containers. These units are accessed from a two-story “head house”, which contains daily harvesting, packaging, and cold storage functions, in addition to office space for the farm team.
Floor Plan Diagram 100’ 116’
HEAD HOUSE OFFICE ENTRY DOCK
20 GROW ZONES
Square
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Food Service April 2022
Roots
Gordon
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Schematic Massing
11 November 2021 Page 10
Frost Chicago
2021
Schematic Massing Frost Chicago
11 November
BACK OF THE YARDS
CHICAGO,
IL Project Status: Concept 2021 Client: Frost Chicago Architect: Via Chicago
A proposed warehouse and corporate ofce/showroom addition to existing warehouse facilities for Chicago-based event company Frost. Design sought to utilize impressive views over surrounding warehouse district while creating a space to showcase their event talents. Project went on hold due to construction availbility.
830 WEST 40TH STREET 1-STORY BRICK WAREHOUSE
900 WEST 40TH ST. 1-STORY BRICK WAREHOUSE EXISTINGRAILLINE 10' UTILITY EASEMENT OVERPASS 3959 SOUTH MORGAN STREET PARKING LOT 31 PARKING SPACES 85 PARKING SPACES 86 PARKING SPACES PROPOSED WAREHOUSE + OFFICE 163'-4" 160'-0" EXISTING DRIVE / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / Chicago, Illinois USA /// 312 · 879 9828 /// www.viachicagoarchitects.com Date Description 830-900 West 40th Street Chicago, IL 60609 Frost Chicago 0 9.38' 18.75' 75' 37.5' 1" = 75' PROPOSED SITE PLAN A0.01
EXISTING RAIL LINES
OFFICE EXPANSION
GRACE POINT NORTH
GRACE POINT ON HWY 30A
WALTON COUNTY, FL
Project Status: Under Construction 2023
Client: JS Partners Grace
Architect: Via Chicago (interior collab. with Curioso)
A three building condo development addition to a private oceanside community in Walton County Florida featuring 1 luxury residences and mixed use spaces designed to re ect the relaxed, friendly pace of coastal communities.
