Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Sara Lundgren
Licensed Architect :: Illinois :: Missouri :: Wisconsin :: AIA LEED AP :: Partner :: Krueck Sexton Partners, Chicago
“For the Love of Craft”
“In the past several years I have embodied a particular moment in time, sourced from media imagery of outrage and protest. I am sensitive as well as an observer of African-American portrayal by a white-centric media. My observations coupled with my studies within my community I’m driven to create a distinctive figure poised between portraiture and social commentary. My figures are often solitary and distorted. They speak to being disenfranchised or homeless, as being barely visible. At times, the faces of my esthetics are formally powerful, beautiful, and charged with a spark of empathic intensity that which commands my audience’s attention. The portraits of African-American men in my view exist in a singular world—human and ancestral, living and sculpted—with an immediacy and economy. I use lines often found in contemporary graphics, working in tandem with gray and black washes, suggesting ancient stone.”
As a sustainability champion at Krueck Sexton Partners, Sara led the firm to signing AIA’s 2030 Commitment in 2014 and has been actively involved in KSP’s goal of achieving net-zero energy on all our projects by 2030.
Sara works closely with colleagues, clients, and project collaborators to ensure that our buildings achieve their design and environmental performance goals, rooted in her belief that an enduring building is the most important first step to creating a sustainable future and repairing the earth.
She has worked on projects at all scales—from single family residences to major embassy compounds. Her work is grounded in a love of craft, a celebration of materials, and a quest to make the world incrementally better through each project’s unique opportunities. She’s an influential mentor who enjoys empowering others to reach their full potential.
Sara holds MArch from Columbia University. NYC, and B.S. in Architecture, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Throughout her productive career she has received multiple awards of national & international recognition.
