2013 Panelist

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Annie Chu is a founding principal of the award winning firm CHU+GOODING Architects in Los Angeles, focusing on projects for arts-related and higher education clients, including arts organizations such as MoCA, Hammer Museum, the Getty Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Annie received a Master of Science in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University in 1989 and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in 1983. She trained for 12 years with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York and Franklin D. Israel in Los Angeles before starting her firm in 1996. Annie received the prestigious Skidmore Owings Merrill Fellowship to study Mayan and Incan architecture in Central and South America. She also represented the United States as a recipient of the DiverseCity award and as a part of the RIBA delegation to China.

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Annie has been a dedicated educator of architecture and design since 1990 in colleges throughout the United States including SCI-Arc, UCLA and USC.  Currently Annie is serving as Professor of Interior Architecture at Woodbury University in Los Angeles. She was the past chair of the National AIA Interior Architecture Committee and of the AIA California Council Design Awards Committee. She is currently a mayor-appointed Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles, promoting sustainable design in the public built environment and support for the arts throughout the city.