Chu+Gooding Architects Joins Populous, HMC Architects and OLIN in聽$350 Million Project; School of Architecture Contributes to Overall Design
LOS ANGELES (August 10, 2015) 鈥� The architectural firm headed by Annie Chu, IIDA, AIA –respected architect, interior designer and Professor of Interior Architecture within聽麻豆社区app鈥檚 鈥� is part of the primary design team that has聽been awarded the $350 million Los Angeles Convention Center renovation project.
Chu鈥檚 firm, Chu+Gooding Architects, is a member of the four-firm collective, which includes聽Populous, HMC Architects and OLIN. The team鈥檚 progressive design focuses on聽placemaking, forward-thinking functionality and authenticity of experience. An animated聽walk-through is available on ; all 14 views of the proposed redesign have been聽posted on .
Chu, founding principal of Chu+Gooding Architects, contributed to the overall design聽concepts and interior architecture vision the interdisciplinary team proposed. Augmenting聽that effort, C+G associate Andrea Dietz — former Woodbury Graduate Program Activity聽Coordinator and Curriculum Specialist 鈥� contributed to Chu+Gooding鈥檚 design and School聽of Architecture adjunct faculty member Yilip Kang, a partner at Nephew LLC, contributed to聽the three interior renderings for the competition phase of the project.
鈥淲e are humbled by this commission, which truly was a Woodbury effort,鈥� Chu said.聽鈥淭ogether with my partners, Andrea and I worked on the competition, using interior聽architecture as a bridge to collaborate on such a large-scale project. Through his firm聽Nephew, Yilip and his partners聽helped tremendously with our three interior renderings.聽The Convention Center renovation will be an enormous boost to downtown L.A. and the聽entire region. We are thrilled to be a part of it.鈥�
Last year, Chu received the International Interior Design Association鈥檚 Leadership Award of聽Excellence from IIDA鈥檚 Southern California chapter. She served as a Cultural Affairs聽Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles from 2010 to 2013, focusing on the re-launch of聽the Mayor鈥檚 Design Advisory Panel and public art initiatives that elevate the quality of聽public art and the built environment within Los Angeles. Her recent design work includes聽exhibit design for the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Hammer Museum; the LA County +聽USC Wellness Center; La Plaza de Cultura y Artes, a Mexican cultural center in downtown聽Los Angeles; a new headquarters for Southern California Public Radio (KPCC 89.3) in聽Pasadena; and the Culver Center of the Arts at the UC Riverside ARTSblock in downtown聽Riverside, Calif.
Award-winning projects include a major renovation and addition to the 1950 Harwell聽Hamilton Harris masterpiece English House, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association’s聽office interior at Disney Hall, the interior renovation of a new home for the Kentucky聽Museum of Art + Craft in Louisville, the Architecture of R. M. Schindler exhibit at the聽Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and a material intensive experimental聽showcase for NeoCon West.
A native of Hong Kong, Chu received a bachelor of architecture degree from the Southern聽California Institute of Architecture and earned a master鈥檚 in architecture and building聽design from Columbia University. As a recipient of the prestigious Skidmore Owings聽Merrill Traveling Fellowship, Chu toured Mayan and Incan architecture in Mexico, Belize,聽Honduras, Guatemala and Peru before beginning an architectural practice that included 12聽years with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York and Franklin D. Israel in聽Beverly Hills.
In addition to teaching at Woodbury, Chu has taught at the New York Institute of聽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. She also has served the聽greater architecture community as 2009 Chair of the AIA California Council Design Awards聽Committee and as 2010 Chair of the National AIA Interior Architecture Committee. She聽contributes to professional publications and serves on the editorial board of Contract聽magazine.