Lira Luis is a global American architect specializing in organic architecture. She graduated with a Master of Architecture degree from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin and a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture, Cum Laude, from the University of Santo Tomas. She holds multiple licenses in Asia, North America, and a Chartered Architect designation in Continental Europe. She has designed an impressive army of diverse and socially-relevant building typographies in Asian and US markets from the small-scale award-winning Portable Transient Shelter Pods to large scale designs for several of the Fortune 100 companies in the US. In 2010, National Geographic and The Aspen Institute selected her as Environment Forum Scholar. In the same year, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) selected her as recipient of the AIA Athena Young Professional Award. In 2011, she represented the A&D community as one of 4 winners in the Reign In Spain Competition by Tile of Spain. She is one of the Midwest’s most innovative design pros who is making a difference in design as named by i4Design Magazine 2011 Suite 16 Top Picks. In 2012, she is named by Engineering News Record as Midwest's Top 20 Under 40.
Award-winning architect and design correspondent, Lira contributes articles as a resident blogger in Chicago Tribune’s ChicagoNow,  Benjamin Moore’s Expert Architects, and the AIA KnowledgeNet Blog.

She also demonstrates competency and leadership in online/electronic marketing as a certified Electronic Marketing Professional earning her credential via a third-party Marketing certification (CeMA).

The Firm

a RIBA Chartered Architect