About UHC

Dave Hampton

Secretary, Director of Research and Development

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Dave Hampton is an architect and musician from Winston-Salem, N.C. who foolishly moved to Chicago in the dead of winter, 2001. In the last several years, Dave has worked on the Field Museum addition, received his architectural licenses in both North Carolina and Illinois, completed five senior centers for the City of Chicago, started a private practice, and got an electric pickup for his violin.

Since April 2005, Dave has committed his time to UHC and Echo Studio, a collaborative he founded in 2002 to integrate architecture and sustainable design principles to produce high-performance homes and buildings. Past collaborations include an award-winning solution for low-cost multifamily housing in Denver, a competition entry for the sustainable redevelopment of the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans, and a high-performance residential rehab in Chicago’s historic Bronzeville neighborhood

Dave looks forward to experiencing more of Chicago by bike, doing more hands-on projects like the food-producing Rooftop Victory Garden at True Nature Foods, working with and developing some of the craziest materials you’ve ever heard of, and being part of a band that finally, after two years, has decided on a name - Twelve Modern.

Lectures and presentations

Deconstruction: The Next Step for True Sustainability in Chicago
Pioneering Engineers - The Economy of Materials from Robert Maillart to Shigeru Ban
Fabric in Architecture