LISA KULISEK, AIA

EDUCATION

Lisa received a Master’s Degree in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1997.  Her thesis topic was the Michigan Central Railroad Depot in Detroit, Michigan (then abandoned and in danger of being demolished) which has recently been rescued and is being restored by the Ford Motor Company.

Lisa received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Urban Planning in 1993.  While there she participated in the inaugural Czech Spring Studio studying Czech residential architecture and large concrete residential buildings called “panelak”.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Lisa joined SCK after sixteen years in a solo practice doing residential renovation work and construction observation.  Her consulting work has included third-party construction observation and reporting on projects of many types and scales across the Chicago area and beyond.  Prior to managing her own practice, Lisa was a Project Architect with Tigerman McCurry Architects in Chicago for ten years where she was promoted to Associate in 2001.  While with TMA she worked on several award-winning single-family residences from schematic design through interiors and was the Project Manager for the International Masonry Institute Masonry Training and Education Center in Bowie, MD and the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, IL (Illinois’ first LEED gold certified Museum project). Lisa is NCARB certified and maintains licenses in Illinois and Michigan.