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ERA / Eric Rothfeder Architect

Chicago, IL
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ERA is an award-winning architecture studio founded by Eric Rothfeder. We believe that design begins with curiosity, and that this eagerness to learn is most productive when it is shared between architect and client. We like to ask questions, we like to solve problems, and we like to collaborate. Our work expresses the knowledge and experience of the people that use, design and build our surroundings.

Eric Rothfeder, AIA, LEED, is a licensed architect in Illinois and an Adjunct Professor at the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received a B.A. with Distinction from Yale University and an M.Arch from Princeton University.  His work has been exhibited at the BSA Space in Boston, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Fondazione Sandretto in Italy; and published in Domus, Wallpaper*, Bidoun, and Competitions Magazine.

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  • Eric Rothfeder, AIA

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  • ERA / Eric Rothfeder Architect
    561 W Diversey Pkwy Suite 210
    Chicago, IL 60614

Featured Projects

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State Street Apartment

This award-winning renovation explores spatial organization and material articulation in a small apartment with striking elevational views of the Chicago Loop. Domestic spaces intersect functions that support working and making, blending the creative environment of the workshop with the traditional living space of the apartment. An underused balcony is reimagined as a courtyard to provide a common and centralizing element for each room. A simple material palette is expressed as smooth or textured, thick or thin, rustic or refined. These variations articulate changes in space and program, creating moments that are distinct yet unified.

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Painter's Studio

This renovation for a painter’s studio and guest space is located in the historic Catalog House along the Chicago River. Strategies of deletion and removal stripped away unnecessary walls and materials to restore the space’s original industrial character. A simple 20’ x 20’ x 15’ volume accommodates the daily activities of painting, cooking and sleeping. The roughness of exposed concrete finishes contrast with moments of refinement in the use of polished terrazzo and lilac marble.

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Spacetime Floatation Center

This project provides a new location and a reimagined concept for Spacetime, the oldest floatation center in the United States. The spa offers a method of deep relaxation within a pool of Epsom saltwater, and provides other wellness services, infrared saunas and a haliotherapy room. The design presents these treatments within an elemental and intimate setting that can support both communal and introspective experiences.

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Montgomery Ward Loft

This renovation in the historic Montgomery Ward building is an interplay between the minimalist and the material, blending the apartment’s architectural qualities with the Owner’s collection of contemporary art, antiques, and modernist furniture. The main living space is experienced as a single spatial volume oriented towards an expansive terrace through subtle changes in the ceiling plane, gradually stepping up to meet the floor-to-ceiling windows. The articulation of the building’s structural grid divides the interior living space into different activities and uses. Large openings between rooms extend to the ceiling, and are positioned to emphasize orientation and passage, and to frame specific views between rooms.

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Lakeview Penthouse

This residence combines a full floor within Commonwealth Plaza, a landmark 1957 modernist apartment tower designed by Mies van der Rohe. The existing layout of small apartments is reorganized to create an expansive living space with an uninterrupted 105’ expanse of floor-to-ceiling windows along its southern elevation, along with corner views to the east and west. By removing the typical interior subdivisions, Mies’s artfully detailed curtain wall system is fully expressed as a spatial element within the apartment’s interior.ete with the existing building.

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