Stuart Cohen & Julie Hacker Architects

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  Designing Great Open Kitchens

  A look at three different open kitchens show artful ways that designers met the challenges that open kitchens pose.

   
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  A Shrunken Economy Leaves Architects Struggling to Juggle More Small Jobs

  Smaller projects mean more client interviews, thinner profit margins, and more jobs starting and stopping.

   
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  How Architects and Their Clients Deal with Obstructionist Neighbors

  While not everyone shares the same aesthetic, there are strategic, peaceful ways to handle design differences among neighbors

   
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  new book explores how cohen and hacker "transform the traditional"

  The first monograph of the work of Stuart Cohen and Julie Hacker reveals how the architects tailor their residential designs for each client's unique needs.

   
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  tech meets tradition

  Floor-to-ceiling windows along two walls are the first hint that this master bathroom remodel was designed for an adventurous person. The client, say architects Stuart Cohen, FAIA, and Julie Hacker, AIA, is a “very interesting guy who owns a telecommunications company and collects English Arts &...

   
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  structured whimsy

  Architects Stuart Cohen, FAIA, and Julie Hacker, AIA, are known for their elegant, timeless designs. And nowhere is their talent more finely expressed than in the kitchen, where they filter a deep knowledge and affinity for classical details through a subtly modern lens.

   
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  hall of fame: stuart cohen, faia, and julie hacker, aia

  No one would call Stuart Cohen, FAIA, or Julie Hacker, AIA, shy. The encyclopedic Cohen, a former professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, never seems more comfortable than when eloquently expounding on all things architectural.