Noah Luken, AIA, LEED AP joined Wheeler Kearns Architects in January of 2013. He has been a licensed architect since 2009 and a LEED accredited professional since 2006. While growing up in Chicago and in college at Columbia University, Noah has been fascinated by the complexity and richness of urban conditions. He studied philosophy as an undergraduate, but his interest in buildings, infrastructure, and technology led him to architecture, which he studied at MIT. Noah has extensive experience in a wide variety of project types, including large-scale educational projects, historically sensitive adaptive reuse projects, and interior renovations for commercial and institutional clients. His most recent projects include the renovation of the Conaway Center for Columbia College Chicago, the Flaxman Library renovation for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Bernard Zell Anshe Emet Day School Expansion which has received numerous awards including three AIA Chicago Design Excellence Awards, one being a Design Detail Award for the building’s facade.