UrbanWorks’ President, Patricia Saldaña Natke, spoke at the third annual COLORES Symposium, a 2022 AIA Houston event presented by Latinos in Architecture, celebrating Hispanic heritage, including architecture, art, cuisine, music, and language.
Come hear our UrbanWorks Principal, Patricia Saldana Natke FAIA, at the National Museum of Mexican Art Sor Juana Festival 2022 in Chicago!
UrbanWorks is proud to have participated in the visioning and creation of the master plan for the re-purposing of the former Joliet Country Club into new affordable workforce housing.
Patricia Saldana Natke, FAIA led an Integration Workshop- Futurist Forum: Urban Interventions at IE University School of Architecture and Design in Segovia, Spain.
UIUC graduates Patricia Saldana Natke and Kari Berg were both participants at the 2019 UIUC School of Architecture Women’s Reunion + Symposium.
UrbanWorks’ EJ Fernandez and Patricia Saldaña Natke were delighted to participate as Keynote Speakers on “Architecture for Social Change” at UIC Arquitectos & UIUC H.O.U.S.E. Resume & Portfolio Day, held at the UIC Architecture Building on February 16th. The event included students, faculty, alums, and Chicago professionals for mock interviews and networking.
On November 12th, UrbanWorks’ President, Patricia Saldaña Natke, gave a guest lecture at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her lecture, titled “Architecture: Provoking Social Change,” shed light on Pat’s early years in Chicago’s Back of the Yards neighborhood, which informed her career as a designer, and led Pat to focus both on design, and how design solutions can become societal solutions. Read more
UrbanWorks’ Robert Natke, following his presentation at NeoCon East in November 2016, has been invited to present “It’s Not Business As Usual: Academic Places Go Through Compression and Change Providing Design Challenges and Successes” at NeoCon in Chicago on June 12, 2017 at 4 p.m. This design show, now in its 49th year at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, will feature exhibitions from over 500 companies, as well as almost 100 CEU seminars for an anticipated audience of over 50,000 design professionals. Read more
UrbanWorks has been named Member of the Month for April 2017 by the Hispanic American Construction Industry Association (HACIA). HACIA «works to ensure the equitable participation of its constituents in the construction industry,” with a focus on Minority and Female-owned firms, “while also promoting the growth, quality of work, professionalism and integrity of these individuals and businesses.” As part of this honor, Patricia Saldaña Natke, UrbanWorks’ Design Principal, will be recognized at HACIA’s monthly meeting in April. Juan Calahorrano, HACIA’s Director of Operations, released in a statement that HACIA «is proud to recognize UrbanWorks Ltd; an HACIA member since 1998, in its April 2017 Membership Meeting. HACIA recognizes the hard work, determination and contribution that UrbanWorks and its Principal Patricia Saldaña Natke AIA have made to HACIA and the construction community through the years.» Read more
UrbanWorks was a Featured Partner Firm as part of the University of Chicago’s 8th Annual Professional Services Symposium. The event, held by the University’s Office of Business Diversity, is an opportunity for senior leaders at the University to network and build sustainable relationships with minority and women owned firms. In a “Fireside Chat” between NBC5 Chicago’s Marion Brooks and UofC President Robert J. Zimmer, the President affirmed the University’s commitment to a diverse professional services vendor pool by saying, «Diversity and Inclusion-we need to do more, not less.»
