Patricia Saldaña Natke
Patricia Saldaña Natke is Founding Partner of UrbanWorks and as President oversees design excellence for every project. Her extraordinary record of public service imbues the firm with a strong civic ethic.
A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign, Pat has served as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago, a Facilitator at Archeworks, and as a Masters in Architecture Thesis Advisor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the IIT College of Architecture and Teaching Assistant Professor at UIUC School of Architecture.
Prior to founding UrbanWorks, she worked in design positions for several award-winning Chicago architectural firms.
Among her professional accomplishments, Pat chaired the National AIA Diversity Committee for the American Institute of Architects. Pat was recently listed in in the “2014: 50 Chicago Designers” by New City, one of the five Emerging Designers by Crain’s Chicago in 2014, and in Crain’s 2020 and 2021 Notable Women in Construction. In 2018 Pat was elevated to the AIA’s College of Fellows in the Design Category. In 2022 she received the Arquitectos Society of Hispanic Architects Legacy Award.