Baker and Ryerson Fellow Jaime Torres Carmona is Founder and Principal of Canopy / architecture + design, LLC, an award-winning architecture and urban design practice based in Chicago. Recognized for his approach and sensitivity towards the end user, social impact and the environment, Jaime explores the role of design as a vehicle for positive change. Through projects ranging in scale from community and health centers to housing, schools, mixed-use buildings, and urban design, Jaime is drawn towards the urban and civic realm and its impact on the human experience. Engaging in this approach, Jaime’s firm has produced some of Chicago’s most recognized neighborhood-based architecture, including the Enlace Headquarters in The Little Village, OSO Apartments in Albany Park, and many other transformative projects. Jaime is currently engaged in projects throughout Chicago and the Midwest US, including; the master plan and building design for Encuentro Square—a trauma-informed housing and community campus at the edge of Chicago’s 606 trail; the HPUMC Project-- the conversion of the historical Humboldt Park United Methodist Church (HPUMC) in Logan Square into affordable apartments; the adaptive reuse of a former Chicago Public Library in Marshall Square to serve as Latino Progresando’s (LP) New Community Center; the new YMCA South Chicago Senior Housing renovation with POAH, and others. Jaime’s work has been presented in a number of venues and universities including the Chicago Architecture Biennial, the Chicago Architecture Center, as well as the National AIA Conference in New York City and Chicago. A distinguished graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he has taught at UIUC, Judson University, and other local universities where his studios have focused on cities, urbanism, people, and culture.