Foster David Dale
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Foster David Dale, AIA - PrincipalEducation
University of Pennsylvania, Master of Architecture 1985
University of Michigan, Bachelor of Arts 1982 RegistrationArchitect, Illinois Work Experience
Foster Dale Architects, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Solomon Cordwell Buenz & Associates, Inc., Chicago, Illinois
Booth/Hansen & Associates, Chicago, Illinois
Bartley Bronstein Long Mirenda, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Feltoon Parry Associates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania BiographyFoster, a Chicagoan for over 20 years, grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where his parents met in art school. Foster loves to draw and has always been fascinated with cities, buildings and gardens. Sustainable design strategies intrigue Foster, and he loves to find ways to implement them for clients. As a way to better understand people and their needs, Foster studied environmental psychology before going to architectural school. Foster studied Italian and Art History in Florence and worked briefly in Rome. He speaks Italian moderately well. Foster is active in the community including being a member of the Board of Directors at Temple Sholom of Chicago and organic-food and job-training organization, Growing Home. Foster and his wife renovated an 1890’s era house in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. They are raising two high school age boys (in the Chicago Public School system) and are working hard to instill their love of travel to their sons. Awards / PublicationsIncluded in recommended list of architects: “Chicago Home + Garden,” 2002 - 2011 Residential renovation projects featured in “Luxury Home Quarterly,” Winter 2011 Adaptive Reuse Design Award, Design Evanston, 2010 Preservation Design Award, City of Evanston, 2008 House renovation in “Chicago Home + Garden”, May/June issue, 2008 Good Neighbor Award, Chicago Association of Realtors, Welles Park Place townhomes, 2004 Kitchen designed by FDA included in It’s Your Kitchen by Joan Kohn (host of Home and Garden Television show, Kitchen Design), 2003. Preservation Honor Award, City of Highland Park, 2001. New Spaces (Home and Garden Television), Renovation of and addition to single family residence featured on nationally syndicated cable television show, 2000. Association for College and University Housing Officers International, Annual Meeting 1995 Presenter, “From Conceptual Design to Punch List: A Case Study of the Construction of a Student Residence Hall. |