Nicholas Cecchi is an architect born in Denver and educated in New Orleans. Following completion of his degree, he worked briefly in single-family residential architecture before leading the design department of a Denver-based boutique architectural and sculptural design and fabrication studio for three years. This time provided invaluable experience in computation, digital and analog fabrication techniques, material properties, and the opportunity to build numerous experimental projects. In 2014, Nicholas moved to Chicago to apply his skills to projects in mixed-use commercial, master-planning, and educational architecture.
Nicholas believes architecture must not merely frame people's lives, but participate in and anticipate the drastic changes taking place in our society, technology, and environment. He seeks to integrate the traditionally segregated domains of academic and professional practice, fabrication and design, criticism and praxis, while participating in an ongoing dialogue with the public who must experience architecture daily. Nicholas is a published architecture writer, contributing to various leading publications, serving on academic reviews, and writing a regular column of criticism for Chicago-based independent newspaper New City. He has served as a guest lecturer and co-instructor for 3rd and 5th year design studios at Illinois Institute of Technology, and continues to contribute lectures, writings, and exercises to other professor's studios. Nicholas tries to give back through service-oriented design projects, volunteer work, and community organizations.
Writing this in the third person made him extremely uncomfortable.
