Valerio Dewalt Train
Architecture and PlanningIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
Valerio Dewalt Train is a mid-sized national architecture and design practice founded in 1994, with headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, and offices in San Francisco, California, and Denver, Colorado. The firm pursues a research-driven, immersive approach to design, serving institutional, educational, corporate, retail, entertainment, hospitality, and development sectors. It emphasizes that good design is environmentally sustainable and inclusive, aligning with its build-or-die ethos to meet tight budgets and schedules. The practice has completed projects for organizations such as Google, Adobe, the University of California, the University of Chicago, Northwestern Mutual, and Avison Young. It has earned multiple national and regional awards, including recognition as one of Architect Magazine's Top 50 Design Firms. In 2020 the firm developed an on-site 1:1 scale augmented reality application to visualize a 36-story tower before construction.