Range Design & Architecture

Join us on Thursday, April 16, for the fifth edition of the MAS Context Now / Arriving series. The program will feature three Chicago-based architecture offices that will share a completed project and a project in the works. In this edition, we will have presentations by Chicago-based Jordan Hicks (@ordersarchitecture ), Casimir Kujawa and Mason Pritchett (@rangedesign ), and Tom Lee (@tomleestudio ). The program will take place at the MAS Context Reading Room (1564 North Damen Avenue, Suite 204, Chicago, Illinois 60622). • • • About Tom Lee Studio Tom Lee Studio is an architecture practice in Chicago focused on distilling complexity into clear, rigorous work. The studio creates spaces that appear simple yet are deeply considered—rooted in context, material, and experience. Its approach prioritizes integrity over style, timelessness over trend, and narrative over aesthetics, balancing precision in craft with a poetic sensibility. It embraces constraints as opportunities to produce architecture that is grounded in its place and aspires to endure. • • • Link in bio. • • • Images: (1) Demeter Millwork designed by Tom Lee Studio, Woodridge, Illinois. © Tom Lee Studio. (2) Fo Guang Shan Buddhist Temple of Chicago. © Tom Lee Studio. • • • #mascontext #nowarriving #orders #rangearchitecture #tomleestudio

Join us on Thursday, April 16, for the fifth edition of the MAS Context Now / Arriving series. The program will feature three Chicago-based architecture offices that will share a completed project and a project in the works. In this edition, we will have presentations by Chicago-based Jordan Hicks (@ordersarchitecture ), Casimir Kujawa and Mason Pritchett (@rangedesign ), and Tom Lee (@tomleestudio ). The program will take place at the MAS Context Reading Room (1564 North Damen Avenue, Suite 204, Chicago, Illinois 60622). • • • About Range Design & Architecture Range Design & Architecture is a Chicago-based Architecture and Design firm focusing on the intersection of art, architecture, design, and landscape. They believe that good design is not precluded by real-world constraints. In fact, they welcome them, often finding inspiration in reconciling seemingly competing demands placed on a project. They view these intersections as opportunities. Considering all aspects of the work including the physical, cultural, and economic context along with their client’s vision, budget, and schedule they seek to reach a balance of the pragmatic and the poetic. • • • Link in bio. • • • Images: (1) Nothing Design Co. Headquarters designed by Range Design & Architecture, 2024. © James John Jetel. (2) Chicago, 2026, designed by Range Design & Architecture. © Range Design & Architecture. • • • #mascontext #nowarriving #orders #rangearchitecture #tomleestudio

Join us on Thursday, April 16, for the fifth edition of the MAS Context Now / Arriving series. The program will feature three Chicago-based architecture offices that will share a completed project and a project in the works. In this edition, we will have presentations by Chicago-based Jordan Hicks (@ordersarchitecture ), Casimir Kujawa and Mason Pritchett (@rangedesign ), and Tom Lee (@tomleestudio ). The program will take place at the MAS Context Reading Room (1564 North Damen Avenue, Suite 204, Chicago, Illinois 60622). • • • About Orders Orders is the architectural practice of Jordan Hicks. Through careful consideration of space and construction technique, Orders projects are functional and efficient. Through focus on unorthodox shape and material, these same projects are playful, surprising, and gently psychedelic. Orders projects have been featured in the New York Times and Dwell online. As part of his practice, Jordan also designs furniture. These pieces work simultaneously as components of architecture and as small-scale tests for new design techniques and sensibilities. Additionally, he writes to explore concepts about buildings, geometry, culture, and meaning; his critical work has been published in Log, Midwestern Architecture Journeys, The Avery Review, Avery Shorts, MONU, PLAT, Dimensions, and elsewhere. Jordan is a registered architect in Illinois, He also teaches design studios and graduate courses in architectural representation at Illinois Institute of Technology. He lives in Chicago’s Belmont Gardens neighborhood with his writer partner. • • • Link in bio. • • • Images: (1) Kitchen, Ten Portals, Chicago, 2025. © Sarah Crowley. (2) Section, Bosworth Basement, Chicago. © Orders. • • • #mascontext #nowarriving #orders #rangearchitecture #tomleestudio

NDC HQ has been nominated in the Offices Category of the 2026 ArchDaily Building of the Year Award. Photo: @jamesjohnjetel

Reflecting on a fulfilling year and thankful for our families, friends and collaborators. Here are some plans in the works (to scale!). Happy Holidays! - RANGE

NDCHQ is a finalist in the Commercial Renovations and Additions Category of the 13th Annual A+ @architizerawards . Link in bio. Photo: @jamesjohnjetel

This expansion of an existing structure into a furniture design studio and showroom aims to unify a space to make and house furniture, address daylighting and energy performance considerations for a south-facing facade, and build upon Chicago's historical pattern of common brick structures with face-brick fronts. Photos: @jamesjohnjetel

This expansion of an existing structure into a furniture design studio and showroom aims to unify a variety of spaces to make and house furniture, address daylighting and energy performance for a south-facing facade and build upon Chicago's historical pattern of common brick structures with face-brick fronts. Photos: @jamesjohnjetel

This expansion of an existing structure into a furniture design studio and showroom aims to unify a variety of spaces to make and house furniture, address daylighting and energy performance for a south-facing facade and build upon Chicago's historical pattern of common brick structures with face-brick fronts. Photos: @jamesjohnjetel

Cosmology of Yard, 2010. Artist Theaster Gates. Amid recent plans to renovate the Breuer Building (the third and former home of the Whitney Museum of American Art), we are reminded of the @theastergates installation for the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Situated within the sunken courtyard at Madison Avenue & E 75th St., the artwork is composed of five elements constructed primarily from wooden wareboards from the Wrigley chewing gum factory (a material used for several of Gates’ artworks during this period). The temple, the largest of the five elements, was developed as a modular assemblage of wareboards and wood framing covered by a translucent corrugated roof. The materiality, form and intimate scale evoke qualities of fishing shacks, tea houses and similarly modest structures of interest to Gates. The temple offered a meditative focus whilst one reflected on the totality of the installation. Range assisted Gates in the creation of the temple, including its design, construction and disassembly in Chicago, and then reassembly at the museum. Artist @johnpreus assisted Gates on crafting the throne, another of the five elements, located across the courtyard as a sort of counterpoint to the temple. During the biennial, the installation was further activated by art historian Dara Epison and artists Derek Chan and @torkwasedyson . Image 2 by Bill Ocutt, all others by Range.

Located along the North Branch of the Chicago River, this home for a curator, a musician and their family called for an arrangement of spaces to house an eclectic collection of art, furniture and musical accoutrement alongside a desire for an abundance of natural light, moments of material richness and a connection to the yard overlooking the water. More at rangedesign.com Photos @jamesjohnjetel

Located along the North Branch of the Chicago River, this home for a curator, a musician and their family called for an arrangement of spaces to house an eclectic collection of art, furniture and musical accoutrement alongside a desire for an abundance of natural light, moments of material richness and a connection to the yard overlooking the water. More at rangedesign.com Photos @jamesjohnjetel