publications

+lectures

+exhibitions

CA Sketch Featuring Robert Benson

Profile of Free Hand Drawings CA Sketch 2019

“Designing With Rather Than For” | Cherry Valley Elementary School

Dean Horowitz, CommArch Magazine Nov/Dec 2019

“A Culture of Collaboration and Curiosity” | Purdue Northwest Bioscience and Innovation’

Dean Horowitz, CommArch Magazine Nov/ Dec 2019

“CannonDesign Produces an Eye-Catching Los Angeles Office for Showtime”

Edie Cohen, Interior design Magazine 2019

“Children Help Design Town Hall”

Jessica Evans, World Architecture News 2019

“Lux et Spatio” Lecture

Tecnologico de Monterrey, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon 2019

“It Takes a Village”

Sydney Franklin, Rockford Public School, The Architect’s Newspaper, August 2019

“When a Building Becomes an Experience”

Deborah Breunig, KI Furnishing Knowledge 2019

“On Our Radar: Robert Benson”

Professional Profile, Contract Magazine May 2019

“An Architecture of Civility: Creating Hope in a New Society” Lecture

The Cliff Dwellers Club Chicago, 2018

“Moving Towards the Light: Collaboration and Productivity in Tomorrow’s Laboratory”

Lab Design Conference, Philadelphia, 2018

“With Edge and Grit: CD expands Echo Global Offices” Alexis Ramos

Work Design Magazine 2018

“Time in Space, Space in Time”

performance with Lake Shore Symphony Orchestra, 2017

“10 Design Ideas For The Perk Workers Actually Want: Quiet ”

Robert Benson, Fast Company 2016

“Office Design Crimes: What Goes Wrong When Companies Upgrade”

Robert Benson/ Meg Graham, Chicago Tribune 2016

“Can We Make New Office Buildings As Cool As Warehouses?”

Robert Benson, ArchDaily 2015

“That’s a Wrap - Exterior Layers Take Projects to the Outer Limits”

Lisa Skolnick, Chicago Architect 2012

“Second Acts for Modern Buildings”

Chris Bentley, The Architect’s Newspaper, December 2012

“4240 Keep It Private” 900 West Washington

Gwen Webber Architect’s Newspaper, September 2011

“the self sufficient city” exhibit

Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, 2010

“Feds Flip Flop on Chicago GSA Project”

Alan G. Brake, The Architect’s Newspaper, August 2010

Big. Bold. Visionary. Chicago Considers the Next Century. Exhibit

Burnham Plan Centennial, 2009

Office Building of the Future BD+C’s Virtual Office Building

unique experiences in 3-D digital format, 2008

HYDROGENERATOR: Envisioning the Bloomingdale Line

Acme Art Works, Chicago 2007

“Light-filled building will greet newly naturalized citizens”

Building Design + Construction June, 2007

twenty-four by forty-eight 4240 exhibit

I Space Chicago, University of Illinois at U-C College of Fine and Applied Arts, 2005

“Plugged in city: Photovoltaic Ribbons May Wrap City”

ID Magazine November 2004

Art Institute of Chicago: Chicago Prize Competition

v + b, Sullivan Trading Room Exhibition, Chicago 2003

The Chicago Prize: Competitions Magazine

v + b, fall 2003

Speculative Chicago: A compendium of Architectural Innovation

UIC Gallery 400 exhibition/catalogue, Chicago 2003

Emerging Visions in Architecture

v + b, Knoll Showroom, Chicago 2003

Architecture for Education: New School Designs from the Chicago Competition

vWA, BPI Press, Chicago 2003

Underconceptualized Chicago

v +b, I Space, Chicago 2003