Principal, Goettsch Partners
Joachim Schuessler is a principal and senior project designer at Goettsch Partners, either leading or collaborating in the conceptual design efforts for projects and continuing to articulate and evolve designs through all phases. He has worked on a range of office, hotel, residential, mixed-use, and institutional projects, and he is particularly experienced with international assignments. His recent work in Chicago includes the One Chicago complex, a 77-story full-block residential and mixed-use development, as well as the city’s 8th tallest building; 320 South Canal, a 50-story office tower integrated with one of the largest privately owned public parks in the city; and the Pepper Family Wildlife Center, the renovation, restoration and expansion of the historic 1912 lion house at Lincoln Park Zoo. Joachim holds a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from Leipzig University of Applied Sciences in Germany, and he received his Master of Architecture from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
