Future Firm

Future Firm is a Chicago-based architecture and design research office founded in 2015 by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke and joined by principal Linda Chávez Baca in 2023. The practice serves civic changemakers, non-profits, arts and culture organisations and mission-driven businesses, treating design as a process of iteration, testing and discussion rather than a finished object.

Notable projects include Revolution Workshop, two warehouses converted into a workforce development headquarters, the renovation of the historic South Side Community Art Center and Hem House, a compact single-family home conceived as a replicable model for Chicago’s vacant lots. The firm was named an Emerging Voice 2026 by the Architectural League of New York and received the Driehaus Community Impact Award in 2025; it is a woman- and minority-owned business.