Louis Wasserman & Associates AIA Architecture Landscape Architecture
Architecture P.O.Box 11138 Telephone 414 271-6474 Planning Shorewood WI 53211 email: [email protected] Landscape Architecture web: www.louiswassermanandassociates.com
Louis Wasserman Member of the American Institute of Architects and NCARB certified.
Registration Licensed in Wisconsin and Illinois. Previously KY, MA, MO, MI, MN, OH, and IN..
Organizations AIA, Wisconsin AIA Director at Large for two years
Education Master of Architecture, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Bachelor of Architecture, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Summa Cum Laude. Ecole des Beaux Artes, Unite Pedagogique d’Architecture 3, Versailles, France.
Professional Experience Louis Wasserman & Associates. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Master Planning, Recreational Planning, Research, Commercial, LL Buildout, Historic Renovation, Institutional, Residential Projects. Historic Preservation.
Benjamin Thompson Architects. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Design Architect for commercial revitalization, Embassy, Educational, Historic Preservation, Adaptive Reuse and Recreational projects.
Cambridge Seven Associates. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Architect for Miami Transit Station, Designer for Educational and Recreational Facilities.
Add Inc. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Architect for Lowell Boathouse, Designer for Institutional and Commercial Facilities.
Jerome Butler, City Architect of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois. Design Architect for adaptive reuse and revitalization of Chicago’s Navy Pier Phase 2.
Harry Weese Architects. Chicago, Illinois. Medical Office Building for Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Adaptive reuse and revitalization and hotel projects.
Hans Borgström Arkitektkontor SAR. Stockholm, Sweden. Skarholmen Centrum; commercial, university and residential projects.
Monographs Wisconsin’s Own: 20 Remarkable Homes: Written & Illustrated with M. Caren Connolly for Wisconsin State Historic Press. Fall 2010 Updating Classic America Ranches, Written & Illustrated with M. Caren Connolly for Taunton Press, October 2006 Updating Classic America Bungalows, Written & Illustrated with M. Caren Connolly for Taunton Press, October 2006 Cottage, America’s Favorite Home Inside and Out, Written & Illustrated with M. Caren Connolly for Taunton Press, September 2005
Experience in Historic Preservation and Institutional Assessments Lead of the team that executed Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 for several Historic Tax Credit Projects.
Part of team that researched and wrote successful nomination to National Historic Register.
Commissioned by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press to select, research and co-author a book on twenty significant historic Wisconsin residences. Seven house museums; Villa Louis, Pabst Mansion, Villa Terrace, Yawkey House, Fairlawn, Octagon and Ten Chimneys, were included in the published and award winning monograph.
Louis Wasserman & Associates AIA Architecture Landscape Architecture
Architecture P.O.Box 11138 Telephone 414 271-6474 Planning Shorewood WI 53211 email: [email protected] Landscape Architecture web: www.louiswassermanandassociates.com
Academic Experience and Selected Invited Lectures Please see additional attachment for extensive Wisconsin’s Own invited lectures. Listing of published, radio and TV citations for four published monographs available upon request.
School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Assistant Professor teaching freehand drawing, theory and design studios at graduate/undergraduate level.
Department of Architecture California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Assistant Professor teaching freehand drawing, design practice and history.
Visiting Lectures at Chicago AIA, AIA Wisconsin, Monona Terrace Lectures, University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, California Polytechnic State University at Pomona, and San Luis Obispo, University of Illinois, University of Oklahoma, University of Minnesota, and Harvard GSD.
Awards and other Publications Wisconsin’s Own: 20 Remarkable Homes: Written & Illustrated with M. Caren Connolly for Wisconsin State Historic Press. Fall 2010. This book has won numerous awards including; National Indie Award for best book in its category.
WSA Merit Design Award for Cathedral Square Office Building Roof Terrace, Milwaukee WI.
State of Wisconsin Energy Grant. Daylighting in the Workplace. Written and Illustrated.
WSA Merit Design Award for NITRO Nightclub, Milwaukee WI.
Builders Choice Award for Historic King Place.
Progressive Architecture Citation for Applied Research for “Film Architecture”.
National Endowment for the Arts. Grant to study Architecture of Film Sets.
State of Wisconsin Grant. “Main Street is All Right” Drawing research recorded in foldout “Roadmaps.”
Plym Traveling Fellowship. University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois. Sketch tour recorded in foldout “Roadmaps.”
National Endowment for the Arts. Themepark Study recognized for Design Excellence.
Progressive Architecture. First Award in Research for “Merchandising Architecture.”
National Endowment for the Arts. Grant to study Architecture of Themeparks. Extensive research recorded in drawings, interviews, data inventory and photos. Invited presentation at GSD, U of I, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Cal Poly @SLO, Cal Poly @Pomona, University of MN, Rochester Art Museum NY, ACE Convention.