Susan Doreen Turner (BEDS’87, MArchFP’89) is an Associate and Historic Preservation Leader at Bailey Edward Design. Originally from Winnipeg, Manitoba, she now lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.  She was elevated to Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) in 2016 for her work in historic preservation. Her work has received awards from state and Chicago AIA chapters, as well as from business organizations and local municipalities.

Canadian Embassy, London

Susan completed her Bachelor of Environmental Studies at the University of Manitoba, and received her Bachelor of Environmental Design Studies from the Technical University of Nova Scotia. She went on to complete a Master of Architecture at the Technical University of Nova Scotia focused in the historic preservation studio. Her education is reflected in her body of work which develops creative design solutions for extremely challenging existing building renovations and restorations. Susan focuses on archaic materials and the revitalization of historic buildings.

First United Methodist Church, Chicago

Significant restoration projects include the Bank of Montreal Portage and Main and Canada House in Trafalgar Square, London, UK with Smith Carter. With her current firm Bailey Edward, her work includes: First United Methodist Church Chicago, Lincoln Hall at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, The Urbana Armory, and many historic courthouses. Her most exciting day was the masonry review of the interior of a 200’ chimney at the Naval Station Great Lakes.

Her early research resulted in a change in the building cleaning industry by being the first architect in North America to embrace, test and specify an environmentally-friendly cleaning system. Her findings from the exhaustive testing of cleaning products were published in Stone World Magazine and presented at a later international preservation conference. In conjunction with the Lincoln Hall Restoration at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, she wrote a comprehensive research study on historic windows, comparing them to new windows, retrofitted historic windows and adding a storm. That paper was adopted by the State of Illinois Historic Preservation Office, California State Parks and Baltimore Heritage. She went on to publish articles with Traditional Buildings and presented internationally at window conferences.

Lincoln Hall, University of Illinois

Susan has been a long time member of APT (the Association of Preservation Technology) for which she is a peer and book reviewer, and presents papers at their annual conferences. She is active with the AIA Chicago, the Homeless Ministry of the Chicago Temple, and volunteer ushering at the Goodman Theater. She lives in Chicago with her husband with whom she has travelled around the world.  In her spare time she paints and embroiders.