Annie Chu is a founding principal of CHU+GOODING Architects in Los Angeles, focusing on projects for arts-related and higher education clients. She is a licensed architect in California, with NCARB certification. She has also held licenses in Kentucky 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. In 1989, she received the Skidmore Owings Merrill Traveling Fellowship to conduct research on Mayan and Incan architecture in Central and South America. In 2004, she received the First Place Award representing the US in RIBA's Diverse City Competition, and joined the RIBA delegation to China.
Her current work includes a Mexican Cultural Center LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles, an upcoming exhibit design for the Hammer Museum, a new headquarters for Southern California Public Radio (KPCC 89.3) in Pasadena, the Culver Center of the Arts, a University of California Riverside graduate arts facility joining the California Museum of Photography by housing the historic Keystone Mast Stereoscopic slide collection in downtown Riverside, California. In the last few years, she completed the schematic design for the renovation and addition to the Museum of History and Art, Ontario, and the design for the Mastersof American Comics joint exhibits at Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. As part of a strong interior architecture portfolio, several projects received design awards: including a major renovation and addition to the 1950 Harwell Hamilton Harris masterpiece English House, Los Angeles Philharmonic Association's office interior at Disney Hall, the interior renovation of a new home for the Kentucky Museum of Art + Design in Louisville, the “Architecture of R. M Schindler “exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and a material intensive experimental showcase for NeoCon West.
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