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Annie Chu
Annie Chu is the principal of CHU+GOODING Architects in Los Angeles. She is a licensed architect in California and New York. Ms. Chu received a Master of Science in Architecture & Building Design degree from Columbia University in 1989 and a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Southern California Institute of Architecture in 1984. Ms. Chu received the Skidmore Owings Merrill Traveling Fellowship in 1989 for research on Mayan and Incan architecture. Currently, she is contributing as project designer and consultant for Israel Callas Shortridge associates on the Fine Arts Building at the University of California in Riverside.
Ms. Chu worked as a project architect and senior associate with Tod Williams Billie Tsien & Associates in New York from 1984 to 1988 and from 1989 to 1990. Some notable projects she participated in are: the awards winning Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown and Spiegel Pool House in New York, collaborative projects with artists Mary Miss & Dan Graham, as well as the Architecture Tomorrow Exhibit at the Walker Art Center.
From 1990 to 1993, Ms. Chu was a senior associate with Franklin D. Israel design associates in Beverly Hills. Notable projects she contributed to include the award winning Limelight Productions Studio in Hollywood and the Drager House in Berkeley, the Southern Regional Library Phase 2 at UCLA and the Villa den Haag project in the Hague.
She was a partner in the firm of Israel Callas Chu Shortridge design associates from 1994 to 1996 and contributed as project designer for the Fine Arts/Surge Building at the University of California in Riverside, the Spartan 14 Housing Project in the Hague, the Public Policy Building renovation at UCLA and the Revlon Breast Care Center at the UCLA Medical Center.
Ms. Chu also worked on domestic, commercial and collaborative art projects for CHU+GOODING Architects such as: the NEA funded Creative Time Inc.-Art on the Beach installation in New York, the LA Service Station exhibit at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, and the Tom Mark Store in Los Angeles. She participated as editorial board member, website design team member and participant of the multi-authored feminist WomEnhouse web project currently on view at the California Museum of Photography website and as part of the Sexual Politics exhibit at the Armand Hammer Art Museum in Los Angeles.
For the past nine years, Ms. Chu lectured and taught at various schools of architecture including New York Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design in New York, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, SCI Arc and Art Center College of Design. In 1997, she was nominated in the initial director search for SCI Arc, as well as the final round candidate for chair, department of architecture and environmental design for Otis College of Art and Design.
In the past, Ms. Chu served as a grant reviewer for the Department of Cultural Affairs. Currently, she is continuing her collaborative and civic service endeavors as a board member of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, and in public art projects with artist Eugenia Butler.
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