Awards —
Illinois Tech Outstanding Young Alumnus 2022
Crain's Chicago Business
40 Under 40 2020
Leadership Greater Chicago Class of 2021
2019 I-NOMA Rising Star Award
2019 ULI Kahan fellowship
2019 Mayoral transition committee - BEND
2018 ULI Chicago Young Visionary Award
Project award —
2022 National AIA Regional & Urban Design Award: Atlanta University Center
2019 National AIA Regional & Urban Design Award: Detroit East Riverfront Framework
2018 IL-ASLA Award Robbins Park
2018 IL-ASLA Award Detroit East Riverfront
2017 APA-IL Robbins Strategic Planning Award
2015 AIA Chicago Barangaroo Award
Dawveed Scully is Managing Deputy Commissioner of Planning and Development at the City of Chicago. As a licensed architect in the State of Illinois and AICP certified urban planner, Dawveed has a strong passion to make design an essential tool to enhance the lives of everyday people. He has experience working on a variety of projects from vision strategies that create a framework for execution to developing implementation strategies that allow those visions to be realized.
Prior to joining the City of Chicago, Dawveed was an Associate Principal in the urban design and planning studio at Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago where he worked for almost 14 years on development around the world including that focus on housing, neighborhood and community planning, transit-oriented development plans, corridor plans, campus planning, inclusive placemaking and design equity.
His award-winning resume includes projects such as Detroit East Riverfront, Barangaroo Central, Atlanta University Center, and Robbins Park. Projects that all center on equitable and just outcomes in the built environment that elevate local culture and community, focus on health and wellness, facilitate economic mobility, and create connected and resilient places.
Dawveed is a graduate and currently an adjunct professor at IIT School of Architecture and featured in Crain’s Chicago Business 40 under 40 2020, ULI Young Visionary 2018 and Leadership Greater Chicago Class of 2021.
“My urbanism is unapologetically black and actively anti-racist. It’s block parties, roller skating, cookouts, Frankie Beverly and Maze and family reunions. We deserve places that are joyous, collaborative and connected in our humanity and our cultures. ”
Presentations + Speaking —
2018 Apple Store Chicago Big Draw Festival
2018 Anthology Architecture Festival
2016 NOMA Conference
2018 NOMA Conference
2018 AIA DC Spatial Equity Panel Discussion
2019 NOMA Conference
ULI Advisory Service Panels
2019 Shaw University Raleigh, NC
2021 Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC) Philadelphia, PA
2022 Virgin Islands Housing Authority (VIHA) Frederiksted, USVI
2023 Electric Works Fort Wayne, IN
Teaching + Reviews —
2020 Co-taught IIT Graduate Design Studio
2018 Montana State University Thesis Jury
2018 Syracuse University Final Review
2013 Co-taught IIT Advanced Studio
2012 Harvard GSD Final Review Jury
Exhibitions —
Say it loud SXSW 2018
50 Wards Exhibition CAC
Say it loud Illinois
Say it loud AIA convention
Syracuse University Exhibition 2018