Daniel L. Tessarolo, AIA
Principal
Based upon two decades of a diversely successful architecture career, Dan Tessarolo brings an invaluable presence to the firm. He has managed several national accounts for Chipman Adams Architects since 2005, and his project teams have consistently demonstrated uncompromising commitment to clients’ budgetary and schedule constraints.
Dan became a Principal of the firm in 2008, and continues to oversee his team’s national accounts. With a proven record of successfully guiding concurrent multi-unit retail and restaurant accounts, Dan excels at complex corporate project management. He is skilled at directing a prototype project through its initial concept design stages, then taking that venture through national code research and construction document phases, providing coordination with all engineering disciplines. With his practiced perspective on national corporate expansions over the years, Dan is in a unique position to play a significant role in the direction of the firm’s business development programming.
His past professional assignments have only served to augment Dan’s consummate capabilities as an architect. For eight years, he served as Vice President of an architectural studio for a design/build company that specialized in retail and restaurant prototype design. This experience became the foundation of his highly effective management style at Chipman Adams Architects, influencing his evolving capabilities in national multi-unit execution.
Dan earned a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago, enhancing his architectural education by attending the Ecole d’ Architecture in Versailles, France. He holds professional membership in the American Institute of Architects and is licensed to practice architecture in several states. Responding to the special needs of local projects, Dan has been qualified for Self-Certification with the City of Chicago Building Department and is also certified as a Registered City of Chicago Energy Professional.