John Ronan (born 1963, Grand Rapids, Michigan)[1] is an American architect, designer and educator based in Chicago, in the United States.
John has lectured widely and his work has been exhibited internationally, including the Art Institute of Chicago and The Architectural League of New York's Urban Center.
A publication on his Poetry Foundation building by the Center for American Architecture & Design at the University of Texas was published in 2015 and a forthcoming monograph, Out of the Ordinary, is scheduled for late Fall 2021.
His firm has been the recipient of three AIA Institute National Honor Awards—for the IIT Innovation Center (Kaplan Institute), Poetry Foundation and the Gary Comer Youth Center—and in 2016 was one of seven international finalist firms for the Obama Presidential Center.
In 2017, Ronan was named Architecture Award winner by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.