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Annie Chu, FAIA
Founding Principal
Annie Chu (FAIA, NCIDQ, WELL AP) is a renowned architect, the co-founder of Chu-Gooding, and a lifelong advocate for interior architecture. Annie’s work has long been recognized for a thoughtful attention to craft, color, and materiality and the shaping of sophisticated spaces that attend to all the senses.
In her forty years in practice, Annie has worked extensively with world-renowned museums, arts and culture facilities, non-profit organizations and universities throughout the United States, fulfilling their missions through design and assisting them through all stages of their development. Presently, Annie serves as Interior Architect (in collaboration with Populous) for the renovation and expansion of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Coined the “modernist house whisperer,” Annie also specializes in the design of custom homes and the renovation of historic residences. Her remodel of the Harwell Hamilton Harris English House (1950) garnered an AIA National Honor Award for Interior Architecture, and her major renovation and addition to the Veneklasen House (1951) earned Chu-Gooding a Residential Architecture Honor Award by the Los Angeles chapter of the AIA.
A firm believer that art and service are intertwined, Annie’s work extends into the civic and professional realms, having served on the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission as well as the Mayor’s Design Advisory Panel. For three decades, Annie was also a dedicated educator and lecturer in architecture and design schools across the country and abroad. She is the recipient of the AIA|LA Presidential Honoree Educator Award and the IIDA Leadership Award of Excellence.
Annie earned her Bachelor of Architecture degree at the Southern California Institute of Architecture and her Master of Science in Advanced Building Design at Columbia University. She was elevated to the AIA College of Fellows in 2016.