UrbanWorks’ President, Patricia Saldaña Natke, will be participating on a panel at the Girls 4 Science spring fundraiser on April 30th to “Spring Forward STEM for Chicago Girls.” The diverse panel features “prominent Chicago female leaders in STEM hosted by Ilene Gordon, former CEO of Ingredion, with Suzzette Jaskowiak, Divisional Vice President of Pharmacy, Healthcare and Customer Engagement Technology at Walgreens; Patricia Natke, President and Design Principal of UrbanWorks; and Kari Steele, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Chicago.” Tickets for the event are $75, and include dinner. Read more
UrbanWorks’ President, Patricia Saldaña Natke, will be participating in a panel at the 2019 AIA Conference on Architecture in Las Vegas on June 8th at 1:30 p.m. The panel, titled “Community Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion in International Practice” will also include Alison Laas of Payette and Charles Campion of JTP. Read more
The Space to Grow program, which “transforms Chicago schoolyards into vibrant spaces to play, learn and be outside” was awarded the 2018 Metropolitan Planning Council Burnham Award for Excellence in Planning. UrbanWorks is proud to have contributed to this wide reaching project, having designed a new playlot for Nathan Davis Elementary. Read more
UrbanWorks’ President, Patricia Saldaña Natke, was a panelists at the sold out Women in the Built World Symposium on February 1st, 2019. Along with panelists Dhooli Raj of Collins Engineers, Michele Murphy of Shawmut and moderator Elaine Shapiro of Thornton Tomasetti, Pat shared ideas on how to improve the field of architecture through Mentoring and Advocating. Read more