Stuart Cohen, is a practicing architect, educator, and author. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois, Chicago.

Cohen is the author of four books on the history of Chicago’s residential architecture including Frank L. Wright and the Architects of Steinway Hall (2021).  There is a monograph on the residential architectural work of his firm, Transforming the Traditional: The Work of Cohen & Hacker Architects, (2009) and more recently First Additions: Strategies for Adding On. (2024).

Cohen received a 2018 Arthur Ross Award from the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art for architectural history and theory. In 2019 Cohen & Hacker Architects were recipients of the Society of Architectural Historians award for Design, Academics, and Scholarship and in 2022 Stuart Cohen received a lifetime achievement award from the Chicago Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.

Julie Hacker is a practicing architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architecture.

Her residential work has been published nationally and internationally and her firm received the 2007 Residential Architect Leadership Award from Residential Architect Magazine. She and her partner received the National 2019 Society of Architectural Historians Award for Excellence in Design, Academics and Scholarship, and the 2017 Chicago Merchandise Mart’s Hall of Fame Award in Design.

 The work of her practice is the subject of a book “Transforming the Traditional”(2009) and the book “First Additions Strategies of Adding On”( 2023).

She has served on the Advisory Board for National AIA CRAN (Custom Residential Architect Network) and currently sits on the steering committee for the Chicago Chapter CRAN. She has organized multiple Symposia for CRAN National and CRAN Chicago, and has served on multiple architectural award juries for the AIA and national magazines. She currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Chicago AIA Board of Directors and mentors young architects as part of the AIA Bridge Program.

She served six years on her local Evanston Preservation Commission and helped rewrite the Design Guidelines and the Solar Panel Guidelines for the City of Evanston.