Founded in 1995 by Roman Schlaeger, a verteran of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill’s (SOM) Chicago office, and co-founder of STR Partners in Chicago, Design Partners Architects Ltd. is a Chicago-based, boutique architectural firm, which enjoys both domestic and international clients. In addition to the firm’s commitment to sustainability, it places equal emphasis on a client’s functional and budgetary needs. While the firm’s design philosophy recognizes the importance of traditional precedents in architecture, it encourages the sensitive and selective use of modernist ideas whenever it is deemed appropriate, and when our clients express a preference for contemporary design solutions. Design Partners Architects Ltd. takes pride in exceeding our client’s expectations through value-based service delivery.

Registrations secured by the firm’s principal have included the States of New York, Illinois, Florida, and Wisconsin as well as The Territory of Guam, and The Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific. In addition, past memberships in the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB), facilitate the ability to practice in many states as the need arises.