David Woodhouse


David Woodhouse is an American architect who was born in Peoria, Illinois and founder of David Woodhouse Architects.

Biography and Influences

Mr. Woodhouse received his Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1971 in a program that included study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Versailles, France. He then joined Stanley Tigerman and Associates in Chicago, where he became an Associate before leaving in 1978 to join Booth/Hansen and Associates where he was Senior Associate and Vice President. In 1987 he started a partnership which became David Woodhouse Architects in 1990. He was advanced to membership in the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in 1999. In 2014, Mr. Woodhouse cemented a 13-year partnership with Andy Tinucci, forming Woodhouse Tinucci Architects.

Awards

His projects have won preservation citations from the Richard H Driehaus Foundation, Landmarks Illinois, and the Lake Forest Preservation Foundation. They have been published both here and abroad in architectural periodicals and books such as Architectural Record, the Chicago Tribune and the AIA Guide to Chicago.

Projects

Mr. Woodhouse's proposal for Chicago's Education District is featured in the book Visionary Chicago Architecture, edited by Stanley Tigerman in 2004.

Jurys and Teaching

Mr. Woodhouse has served on architectural design award juries for the American Institute of Architects and preservation foundations, has contributed articles to several architectural periodicals and has been a faculty member at Archeworks.

He has taught as an Adjunct Professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology's College of Architecture and is a frequent lecturer and visiting design critic at the University of Illinois in Chicago, the Illinois Institute of Technology and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.