Projects

15 projects

ProjectPlaceTypeYear

Future of StateChicagoUrbanism2026 Room Around a CoreChicagoHousing2026 Alley HouseChicagoHousing2026 The Returning LightChicagoInstallation2026 MiskoWinnipegInstallation2025 Inner GardenPortlandHousing2025 Between FloorsLos AngelesHousing2025 Recess BrewChicagoGraphic2022 NebraChicagoObjectc. 2021 Porta RosaRosevilleCivic2019 Lifting the CurtainCharlottesvilleInstallation2018 Mr. WattChicagoObject2018 ChicagoismChicagoCivic2014 WeihenstephanFreisingEducation2014 Dwell IIMunichHousing2012

Practice

Architecture shaped by clarity, care, and context.

Norbert Schlotter Architect is an independent Chicago practice working across architecture, urban space, installations, and objects.

Norbert Schlotter, AIA, NCARB, is a German-born architect and design leader. Before establishing his independent practice, he worked with HENN in Munich and SOM in New York and Chicago.

Based: Chicago, Illinois
Registration: Illinois + New York
Work: Residential
Feasibility + concept design
Civic + public space
Design collaboration

Notes

Sep 2026ExhibitionInner Garden will be exhibited at HUD’s 2026 Innovative Housing Showcase on the National Mall in Washington, DC, September 22–24. Jan 2026PublicationInner Garden is featured by The Architect’s Newspaper in its coverage of the National Single Stair Architectural Design Competition winners. 2026AwardThe Returning Light receives Third Prize in the Gertrude Lempp Kerbis Memorial Design Competition. 2025AwardInner Garden receives First Prize in the National Single Stair Design Competition, Portland Award. Apr 2022AwardRecess Brew is selected as the winning design in Recess’s open beer-can design competition. 2022AwardMr. Watt receives the iF Design Award in Lighting. Nov 2017ExhibitionA collaborative 1:1 study of Egon Eiermann’s SE 18 folding chair, drawn by Malte Köditz, Marita Weiß, and Norbert Schlotter, is exhibited in Beyond the New at Die Neue Sammlung — The Design Museum, Munich.

Contact

info@norbertschlotter.com

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