“Some experiences stay with you not as memories, but as something closer to a material. They stay with you as something you carry in your hands and your body long after you’ve left the place itself. Peru was that for Rick and me.”

In her latest post for Substack, Chu-Gooding founding principal Annie Chu reflects on her 1991 trip to Peru with Rick, and how the experience shaped her perspective:

“In 1991, fresh from our return from Peru, Rick and I wrote the following article, “The Stones of Cuzco,” for Oz, the student-edited journal of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Planning, and Design. I share it here because, more than 30 years later, I find that what we observed in those ancient stones still quietly shapes the way I think about building.”

You can read the article by Annie and Rick on her Substack.