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What makes a house feel like home?
For architects, that question reaches beyond floor plans and finishes to encompass memory, daily rituals, and the ways people inhabit a space.
Last night, Chu-Gooding founding principal Annie Chu joined the inaugural Making Space Symposium for a conversation exploring these nuances. Organized by Untapped in collaboration with the L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design, the event brought together architects Annie Chu and Joe Dangaran, architecture critic and author Frances Anderton, artist Kenturah Davis, director Erich Joiner, and designer Sam Klemick.
How Childhood Spaces Shape an Architect’s Perspective
In her presentation, subsequently published in Untapped’s The House I Grew Up In series, Annie reflected on her childhood home in Hong Kong. Her recollections connect the experience of growing up in that house with enduring questions about materials, spatial relationships, and how rooms accommodate changing needs.
One particularly practical lesson emerged from sharing a bedroom with her sister: a successful floor plan should support different furniture arrangements and uses. Her memories also reveal an early fascination with the thresholds between indoors and outdoors—a relationship that can profoundly shape the experience of home.