Thomas Roszak
Thomas Roszak, FAIA is an American architect, real estate developer, business executive, author, and academic.
Roszak has developed, designed, and built commercial properties, hotels, condominiums, and private residences in Illinois and Arizona. He founded and runs three companies involved in architecture, construction, and real estate development. He was an adjunct professor in the College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2008, Roszak received an award from the American Institute of Architects for a house he built for his family.
Biography
Roszak received a bachelor's degree in architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1989. In 1996, after early-career positions at architecture and development firms in Chicago, he founded Roszak Architecture, Development, and Construction, located in Evanston, Illinois.Roszak/ADC developed and created projects representing more than $3 billion in the Chicago and Phoenix areas. His condominium developments in Chicago and Evanston have been cited for their beauty, ingenuity, and sensitivity to people and the environment.
Now Roszak leads as principal in three companies headquartered in Chicago:
- Thomas Roszak Architecture
- SteelGrass, construction management
- TR Management + Consulting, development
In 2020, Roszak was elevated to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
Roszak served as an adjunct professor in the College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, where he taught a comprehensive architectural design and construction studio. In 2015, Illinois Tech awarded him the John J. Schommer Honor I Award in recognition of alumni who excel both in leadership and performance in their chosen professional careers. The Thomas A. Roszak Endowed Scholarship has been created to support student academic achievement at Illinois Tech College of Architecture. Thomas Roszak was elected to the Illinois Tech Board of Trustees in 2022.
His firm, Thomas Roszak Architecture, was presented with an international design award in the Swiss-based BLT Built Design Awards global competition in 2023. The Fulbrix Apartments was selected as Winner in Architectural Design in the Mixed-use Building category.
''Glass House''
In the 2000s, Roszak designed and constructed a house of glass, concrete, and steel for his wife and three children. The Glass House received an Honor Award for interior architecture from the American Institute of Architects in 2008. The AIA jury commented:"The transparency from the outside in and the inside out is a strong design concept. Not only does transparency unite the functional space of the floor plan with the environment, it informs the canvas about the use of color—the yellow structure, red core walls, and cherry floors tie directly to the seasonal vegetation, bringing the landscape into play as design elements."In 2007, Glass House: A Family Home was published by Edizioni Press. The book discusses design decisions made on the house and the realities of living in a transparent home.