Edward Twohey, AIA • Download Full Resume

Principal

Ed began his career at Burns + Beyerl in 1994 when the firm was less than a year old. Five years later, after demonstrating extraordinary skills as a Project Architect and Construction Manager, Ed was promoted to Principal

in the firm. Among his responsibilities as Principal, Ed has taken primary responsibility for the restaurant projects, and provides critical insight into the Design/Build process provided by our affiliated company, BBA/Build, LLC. Ed also heads up the Information Technology department at the office.

Ed is a member of the American Institute of Architects, and has done consulting for Logan Square Preservation. His work at Burns + Beyerl was recognized by the Winnetka Society for Historic Preservation as the finest example of restoration and renovation in 1997.

Growing up in Grand Rapids Michigan, Ed worked summers doing part time office work at his father's law firm, Twohey Magini, and helping out with his mother's antique appraisal and estate sale business. Ed studied Architecture & Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. The program provided Ed with the opportunity to travel throughout Scandinavia, and attend a semester at the University of Copenhagen. Upon graduation from Miami in 1987, Ed took a summer job with the Historic American Buildings Survey, where he documented and produced measured drawings of historic homes at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia. For the next year, Ed lived

in Cincinnati Ohio and interned for architect Terry Brown, whose notable project was the Contemporary Arts Center bookstore in downtown Cincinnati which was widely published in architectural journals.

Moving to Chicago in 1988, Ed took a job with the Chicago Architect and developer Marcel Freides. There, Ed gained invaluable experience as both project architect and construction site superintendent on custom residential

and townhome projects..

Ed completed his Masters Degree at Washington University in St. Louis in 1992, taking some of his final classes in the Rome Summer program, and serving as a teaching assistant in the fall of that year for Professor Carl Safe.

Ed held various architectural positions before landing back in Chicago in 1994 with Burns + Beyerl, becoming a partner in 1999.

Ed, with wife Camulla and children born in 2004 and 2008, live in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Northwest side of Chicago.