Renowned Professor of Interior Architecture Also Voted Winner of聽Woodbury鈥檚 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award
The Los Angeles chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) has bestowed its 2016 Distinguished Educator Award on respected architect, interior designer and professor Annie Chu, FAIA, IIDA, one of AIA|LA鈥檚 2016 Presidential Honorees.
is the second recognition for Prof. Chu鈥檚 teaching this season.聽 Earlier this summer, she received the School of Architecture鈥檚 2016 Excellence in Teaching Award, the highest honor Woodbury students can bestow upon a faculty member.聽 Now in its second year, the award process enables students to nominate members of the faculty and manage review and voting in consultation with the Faculty Development Committee.聽 Students select winners for each school, the College of Liberal Arts, and the library.
Conferred by the AIA|LA Board of Directors, the Presidential Honoree program recognizes excellence in design and individuals whose passion, talent, and dedication make an undeniable contribution to Los Angeles.聽 Presidential Honorees are bestowed in conjunction with the chapter鈥檚 annual design awards.聽 , at the newly refurbished Palace Theatre. Each year, deans and chairs from area schools of architecture submit recommendations to the AIA|LA board.
鈥淭his year鈥檚 recipients share a deep passion for architecture and dedication to the profession,鈥� said AIA|LA President Debra Gerod, FAIA. 聽鈥淭he impact of their contributions extends well beyond the people and projects they have directly influenced.聽 They have advanced our profession and enriched our community.鈥�
Annie Chu: “An integrative approach聽to design that considers both architecture and聽the interior experience”
鈥淎nnie Chu hones her critical practice through teaching,聽writing, and public speaking,鈥� said Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter, AIA,聽Interim Dean of the School of Architecture.聽 鈥淥ver聽the past 26 years, she has instilled generations of聽students with the values of an integrative approach聽to design that considers both architecture and聽the interior experience. 聽At Woodbury, Annie was聽one of four key faculty who launched the new聽 to advance聽the definition and status of the discipline. She brings her rigor and passion to the classroom, arguing with authority for the聽centrality of interiors to the practice of architecture聽as an honorable and generous service to the public. Respected聽locally and nationally for design excellence and聽pedagogy, and sought after for AIA design juries聽and lectures, Annie represents the very best of our profession and of educators in our discipline.鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 deeply honored and extremely grateful for this recognition from AIA|LA. And, I extend my sincere appreciation to my colleagues, collaborators, and students at聽Woodbury for the Excellence in Teaching Award,鈥� Prof. Chu said. 鈥淜nowing that others value this work inspires me to continue to evolve a critical teaching practice and to help define the value of the interior architecture discipline.鈥�
A dedicated educator of architecture and design since 1989
A founding principal of聽, Prof. Chu has been a dedicated educator of architecture and design since 1989 and a professor of Interior Architecture at Woodbury since 2010, working with her colleagues in both the undergraduate and graduate interior architecture programs.
Prof. Chu has engaged consistently a practice of arts and culture, higher education, and residential projects alongside teaching Interior Architecture, Architecture, and Environmental Design. 聽She elevates interior architecture as a distinct discipline through the design of award-winning environments and through educational, professional, and civic leadership. Prof. Chu received the International Interior Design Association鈥檚 Leadership Award of Excellence from IIDA鈥檚 Southern California chapter in 2014.
Prof. Chu served as a Cultural Affairs Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013, focusing on the re-launch of the Mayor鈥檚 Design Advisory Panel and public art initiatives that raise the quality of public art and the built environment in Los Angeles. Her recent design work includes a widely published residence showcasing an integration of architecture, interiors, and exhibition design; the winning competition entry for the Los Angeles Convention Center; and exhibition design for the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens.
A native of Hong Kong, Chu received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and earned a Master of Science in Building Design from Columbia University. She was a recipient of the prestigious Skidmore Owings Merrill Traveling Fellowship through which she studied Mayan and Incan architecture in Mexico, Belize, Honduras, Guatemala and Peru. She worked in the firms of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York and Franklin D. Israel in Beverly Hills for twelve years before establishing her own practice. She previously taught at the New York Institute of Technology, Parsons The New School for Design, University of Texas at Austin, UCLA, SCI-Arc, Art Center College of Design, Arizona State University, and USC.聽 She also has served the greater architecture community as 2009 Chair of the AIA California Council Design Awards Committee and as 2010 Chair of the National AIA Interior Architecture Committee. She contributes to professional publications and serves on the editorial board of Contract magazine.
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