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Michael Matteucci is an associate principal at CHU+GOODING Architects in Los Angeles, focusing on projects for arts-related and higher education clients. He is a licensed architect in the State of California as well as being LEED certified. Mr. Matteucci received a M. ARCH I, Master of Architecture, from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and a Minor in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley in 1988. Upon the conferral of his Masters Degree, he was awarded the American Institute of Architects Medal and Certificate of Merit.
After graduation in 1993, Mr. Matteucci joined the office of Franklin D. Israel design associates in Los Angeles working on notable projects such as the Fine Arts Building at University of California, Riverside. While attending the University of California, Los Angeles, he was a production team member at Frank O. Gehry & Associates.
His application of strong project management and design skills have helped to realize such recent projects as Mexican Cultural Center LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles as well as the new headquarters for Southern California Public Radio (KPCC 89.3) in Pasadena. Mr. Matteucci has exhibited a strong interest in the preservation and rehabilitations of historic projects. Such projects include the renovations to the Culver Center of the Arts, a University of California Riverside graduate arts joint facility as well as the schematic design for a renovation and addition to the Museum of History and Art, Ontario. The major renovation and addition to the 1950 Harwell Hamilton Harris mid-century masterpiece, English House, garnered a 2002 National AIA Honor Award.
Mr. Matteucci participated in the 2011 California Preservation Foundation Conference, Developing Dynamic Designs in Concert with Historical Architecture: A Design Roundtable. Currently, he serves as Board Architect for the City of Los Angeles's Miracle Mile North Historic Preservation Overlay Zone, one of the city's 29 designated historic districts. For more than 15 years, he has been a guest juror and critic for at several universities. In 2005, he began instructing his own courses and has taught at both USC and ASU and in 2011, instructed the Interior Architecture Senior Thesis Project at Woodbury University.