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News
01.17.17
Stewart attends thesis reviews at Harvard GSD.

12.01.16
Design With Company will guest edit the Winter edition of MAS Context focusing on 'Character'.

11.01.16
The Late Entries to the Chicago Public Library Competition is featured in MAS Context.

08.18.16
Design With Company speaks at Archeworks' Agendas.

06.01.16
Allison Newmeyer is a hand model for Metropolis' Chicago Design Guide


06.01.16
Design With Company exhibits the Talent Pool for Metropolis Magazine at NeoCon 2016.

05.24.16
Design With Company exhibits Fiction Fort at CAF's 50 Designer's + Ideas + Awards !

04.13.16
Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer in conversation at MoMA's From the Vault series!

04.05.16
Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer talk about architecture and HUMOR in NewCity'sA Lot You Got to Holler podcast!

03.25.16
Stewart and Allison lecture about recent work at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture and Urban Planning.


03.11.16-05.06.16
Design With Company to exhibit the project hedgeH.U.G. for the Field Test Exhibit at the Science Gallery in Dublin!

03.14.16
Design With Company exhibits recent work at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Architecture.

03.10.16
Design With Company selected as one of NewCity's Design 50!

02.12.16
Stewart and Allison will give the Hyde Chair lecture at University of Nebraska-Lincoln School of Architecture.

02.01.16
Design With Company is featured in Modern Magazine, by David Sokol!!


01.01.16
Design With Company exhibits The Gateway to Play at the Museum of Science and Industry's Brick by Brick Exhibit.

12.04.15
Design With Company teams up with Lula Cafe to exhibit the Food Column at Designed to Eat for the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

12.02.15
Design With Company opens Belong.Here.Now. for Airbnb at Design Miami.


11.04.15
As part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Chicago International Film Festival, Design w/ Company will be screening the film My Winnipeg and discussing architecture's connection to film, with filmmaker Michael Glover Smith!

10.23.15
Design With Company lectures at Lawrence Technological University.

10.06.15
Top 4 pick of the Chicago Architecture Biennial in the New York Times!

10.01.15
"Chicago's Next Generation" in "Architectural Record"!

09.15.15
"Next Progressives" in Architect Magazine!

10.03.15
Stewart Hicks to participate in Biennial Program - Post Modern Architecture: Preservation's New Frontier!

07.28.15
Stewart and Allison will lecture about the Porch Parade at The Museum of Vancouver.

07.09.15
Shaw Town in Architect Magazine!

06.01.15
Shaw Town is featured in Metropolis Magazine.

05.14.14
Design With Company is excited about receiving a 2014 grant from the Graham Foundation to study Architectural Character in the Rural Midwestern United States!!!

04.28.14
Design With Company was awarded the winning entry in Dawntown Miami's Design / Build 2 Competition for the Pavilion MMM... (Miami Many-a-chair Monument)!!!

04.14.15
Design with Company will participate in the 2015 Chicago Biennial!

03.28.15
Design With Company launches its Treatise book and speaks in the panel discussion at The Graham Foundation.

03.18.15
Design With Company was awarded the winning entry and residency for the 2015 Ragdale Ring with the project, 'Shaw Town'!

03.18.15
Design With Company was awarded the winning entry in Viva Vancouver's Robson Redux Competition, with the project 'Porch Parade'!!

03.18.15
Design With Company and CAMESgibson will speak at the Graham Foundation. Join us as we discuss architecture and learning from the everyday, collage fiction, corn and character!!!

01.28.15
Design With Company exhibits the Culture Sampler at The Graham Foundation's Treatise: Why Write Alone?

03.25.14
Stewart and Allison are awarded Fellowships to teach the Critical Practice studio at Lawrence Technological University.

01.21.14
Design With Company was awarded a Special Mention for Rural Typology in the d3 Unbuilt Visions Competition!

11.15.13
Design With Company turned Sean Lally's plan into the 'House of Humors' for the Transforming Exhibit.

11.12.13
Design With Company is shortlisted for Green in the City in Omaha, NE.

10.08.13
"Characterizing the Midwest".
Design With Company to lecture at University of Houston, College of Architecture.

09.13.13
Archizines exhibit designed by DWC opens at the Public Works Gallery in Chicago!

04.26.13
Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer are presenting at the Strange Utility: Architecture Toward Other Ends Symposium at Portland State University.

04.08.13
Allison Newmeyer participated as a juror in the Activate! Design Competition to Redefine Public Space in Chicago.

04.01.13
Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer are 2013 MacDowell Colony Fellows! They will spend a month during this summer studying the concept of character within architecture in New Hampshire.

03.01.13
Dw/Co has teamed up with Landscape Architect Richard Hindle on a shortlisted entry in the Lausanne Jardins _ Landing2014 Competition

02.01.13
The Monument to Bruce is published in Clog: Brutalism!

12.01.12
The Chicago Institute for Land Generation is published in Bracket: goes soft!

11.01.12
Our project, Save the Prentice from the Wrecking Ball: The Monument to Bruce is featured in the Chicago Architecture Club exhibit Reconsidering an Icon.










Nov 22, 2012
The Monument to Bruce is on Archdaily and designboom!

::Nov 16, 2012::
The Monument to Bruce is featured at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.

::Nov 15, 2012::
Deskasaur meets UIC at the FIELDS Exhibition opening.

::Nov 1, 2012::
Character Building featured in Design Bureau magazine.

::May 19, 2012::
Presented "Fabulous Infrastructure" at the "Manufacturing Landscapes Symposium" in Chicago!!

::May 10, 2012::
Farmland World is featured in the d3 Natural Systems Exhibit until June 01.

::April 13, 2012::
Opening event of "Character Buildings" at the IMC in Urbana!!!

::April 13, 2012::
Farmland World is featured in this month's Abitare 521!!!

::February 5, 2012::
Check out Fin's Labyrinth and the new issue of SOILED No. 3 Platescrapers!

::January 30, 2012::
Animal Farmatures are on billboards as part of the Sky Gallery put on by 40 North 88 West in Champaign!

::January 27, 2012::
The New York Times likes Farmland World!

::January 19, 2012::
Animal Architecture Awards, including Farmland World is on exhibit at the Architecture Center Houston! Stay tuned for the panel discussion on February 2.

::January 16, 2012::
The IMC Character Buildings received an honorable mention in the Un-Competition.

::December 30, 2011::
"Fictions From the Fabulous Middle" at MAS Context: Analog!

::December 7, 2011::
We won two honorable mentions in the CITY-SENSE competition found here!

::December 2, 2011::
Pin-Plant is featured on evolo.

::October 15, 2011::
Presented at the MASContext: Analog event in Chicago

::September 23, 2011::
Fin's Labyrinth won the suckerPUNCH urban farming competition!!

::September 05, 2011::
Farmland World is featured in MASContext Issue 11, SPEED!

::August 24, 2011::
Farmland World featured on Treehugger, Inhabitat, Foodista, i09.

::August 22, 2011::
Farmland World featured on BLDG BLOG!!

::August 15, 2011::
Farmland World received second runner up in the Animal Architecture Awards!!

::July 12, 2011::
Second Second City is featured on Fast Company.

::June 25, 2011::
Design With Company wins the Life at the Speed of Rail Competition with Animal Farmatures!

::June 16, 2011::
P.L.O.T.s is featured on Gapers Block!!!

::June 12, 2011::
Second Second City is featured on ARCH DAILY!

::June 2, 2011::
Second Second City is featured on EVOLO!

::May 17, 2011::
Chicago P.L.O.T.s will be published in the next Plat Journal volume 2.0 titled "Mind the Gap."

::May 26 - August 31, 2011::
The Store Store to be included as part of the TIMEless exhibition at the Pacific Design Center.

::April 19, 2011::
Website Launch!

::April 9, 2011::
Chicago Institute for Land Generation featured as part of the Soiled journal launch event at "In The Table Gallery" in Chicago.

::March 14, 2011::
Chicago Institute for Land Generation selected for bracket [goes soft].

::March 9, 2011::
Design with Co receives Urbana Arts Grant.

::March 8, 2011::
conFIGURE ONEfold desk featured on designboom.

::February 28, 2011::
Winner in Architizer's "Competition Competition"

::December 3, 2010::
Public Engagement Grant awarded for work at the Independent Media Center in Urbana, Illinois. With Aptum Architecture.

::July 15 - October 29, 2010::
Store Store Installation: You Are Here and Here, as part of Wicker Park/Bucktown's "Make Believe" Competition. With Jimmy Luu.

::May 15, 2010::
Honorable Mention in Chicago Prize Competition - Mine the Gap.
Design With Company
New Talent
— A New Talent Exhibit. x Location: The Merchandise Mart, Chicago Year: 2017 Team: Stewart Hicks, Allison Newmeyer, Valerie Wong Images by Jessica...
Independence Branch Library
— A Library Stair with Housing Atop. We teamed up with Landon Bone Baker architects for a co-located branch library and forty-five units...
Doll Face
— A dollhouse with no interior. A dollhouse is a device for exploring and narrativizing the interior. As typically configured, a dollhouse presents a deep section...
Talent Pool
— An exhibition design for New Talents. Metropolis Magazine commissioned us to design a booth to display “New Talent” at the NeoCon 2016 furniture show. We pro...
hedge H.U.G.
— A Neighborhood Farm, Horticultural Urban Growth. Hedge HUG is a fictional exploration of a rural urbanism, where the city is brought into and around the farm....
Institute for Gateway Preservation
— A Brick x Brick Exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. “Play as a gateway to building great things.” In response to the LEGO Design Challenge, we are pr...
Fiction Fort
— The fortification for and of books. Fiction fort is a playful and welcoming fortification for and of books. The rectangular ring of walls are fashioned from...
Food Column
— The Skewered Column at "Designed to Eat". Design With Company and Jason Hammel constructed a “food column,” composed of five types of skewered bites, each rep...
Belong.Here.Now.
— The Agora for Airbnb at Design Miami. Inspired by Airbnb’s narrative, Belong.Here.Now. is an outdoor forum at Design Miami 2015, inviting visitors to come in a...
Late Entries to the Chicago Public Library Competition
— A BOLD Exhibit at the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial. This Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition uses the parameters of the 1987...
Shaw Town
— A Ragdale Ring temporary outdoor theater. For the project and residency, we are proposing to study the buildings of Howard Van Doren Shaw, the architect of...
Porch Parade
— A temporary plaza for Robson Robson Street in downtown Vancouver, BC . The porch is the architectural element that connects people and buildings to the city. It...
Misguided Tactics for Propriety Calibration
— A Treatise. Our pamphlet examines the concept of character in architecture by looking closely at constructions in the Midwest which self-consciously construct...
Culture Sampler
— A statistically average mile of the Midwestern United States. The Midwestern Culture sample was constructed for an exhibit at the Graham Foundation in Chicago...
Pavilion MMM...
— The Miami Many-a-chair Monument. This pavilion is a playful temporary addition to Philip Johnson’s Museum Plaza in downtown Miami, FL. The name of the structure ...
The Pasture
— The backyard for The BlueBarn Theater in Omaha, NE. The Pasture is both an accompaniment to the BLUEBARN Theater as well as an activity scaffold that operates...
House of Humours
— A Transformation. The four temperaments is a proto-psychological theory that suggests that there are four fundamental personality types, sanguine...
A Zinery and Ziggurats
— The Archizines for Chicago. This installation at “This Public Works Gallery” is the Chicago leg of the traveling exhibition Archizines. The exhibition features 1...
MacDowell Fellowship
— A Month in New Hampshire.
Tree Tops Garden
— An Urban Vase to Hug or Punch. The Tree Top project introduces a new form of plant ornamentalism to the city, utilizing forest species prized as timber, pulp,...
Collider Activity Center
— A Campus for Climbing and Characters. This project was our entry to a competition for a climbing company in Sophia Bulgaria. Collider Activity Center is a...
Simply Impassible
— A Moulded Folly. SUMMARY Simply Impassible literally translates the definition of a folly into a design process by redeploying forms typically associated with...
Dog Bark
— The dogs like parks. The Dog House Pavilion is playful new addition to our beloved Bark District in Southwest Champaign. The pavilion is part of a larger...
The Monument to Bruce
— A Wrecking Ball to Save. A story about an icon whose cultural death came before its material death. This response to the situation of the Prentice Women’s H...
The Second Second City
— A mountain on McCormick Center. This proposal contends with the competing and overlaid desires for the site by creating a new tourist destination and...
Character Buildings
— A Deskasaur and his Stamps. Character Buildings are a series of material and figural investigations for the Independent Media Center (IMC) in Urbana, Illinois....
Bric-a-Brac Shack
— A warming hut. BRIC--BRAC is a French term, first used during the Victorian era, that refers to ornamental objects typically displayed in cabinets full of other...
Lumpy Lucy
— A pavilion of stuff. “Stuff, things that have material lives, is not a secondary addition to the architectural situation, or merely an instrument of p...
Fin's Labyrinth
— A place to play with your food. Fin’s Labyrinth is an architecture and urban strategy that encourages you to play with your food. Both a working fish farm and a ...