Portrait of Eric Rothfeder, Architect

Eric Rothfeder, AIA, LEED AP, is an architect, writer, and educator based in Chicago. He is the founder of ERA, a design practice working across residential, commercial, and cultural projects.

His first book, Inhabiting Icons, is forthcoming from Princeton Architectural Press. The book pairs modernist apartment buildings with the contemporary homes inside them, exploring how architecture is lived in, altered, and renewed over time.

Eric holds a B.A. with Distinction from Yale University and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. He has taught at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and serves on the board of the Chicago Architectural Club.

His work has been recognized in exhibitions at BSA Space in Boston, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Italy, and has been featured in Dwell, Wallpaper*, Domus, and AN Interior.