A N N E  M A R I E  C U N N I N G H A M,  I I D A,  A S S O C.  A I A  

As a Principal and lead designer at NBBJ, Anne creates invigorating interiors that reflect and enrich a company’s identity, purpose and culture. Bolstered by extensive experience in corporate, civic, commercial and public space planning, Anne has created remarkable workplace solutions for clients at the forefront of their industries, including Amazon, Microsoft, McKinstry Innovations, R. C. Hedreen and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

As a driver of interior workplace projects, Anne has bridged the poetry and pragmatism of design by consistently aligning creative visions with client objectives. Her workplace design focuses on cultivating differentiators for clients, and by bringing out the embedded spirit of an organization into its spaces to serve as organic sources of inspiration for clients. She brings unbridled creativity and innovation to projects large and small, going the extra mile to achieve texture, depth and meaning in places both expected and unexpected.

Anne brings to the IIDA Oregon Chapter Design Excellence Awards jury, a strong record of service to colleagues and the design community. She serves as a core member on NBBJ’s Design Practice Leadership Team, where she stewards the firmwide design strategy and vision through lessons and principles learned from twenty-four years working in the field. On the Corporate Practice Marketing and Leadership Advisory Board, Anne provides critical insights to recruitment and strategy and building the practice. She also serves as a member of Contract Magazine’s editorial board and a mentor to junior designers at NBBJ.

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A N N I E   C H U,  A I A,  I I D A,  N C A R B,  N C I D Q

Annie Chu is a founding principal of the awards winning CHU+GOODING Architects in Los Angeles with an extensive portfolio of interiors focusing on arts, culture and higher education clients, such as Southern California Public Radio, MOCA, Hammer Museum, the Getty Center, the Studio Museum in Harlem, USC, UCLA, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. Annie received an MS degree in Architecture and Building Design from Columbia University and a BArch degree from SCI-Arc. She trained with Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects in New York and Franklin D. Israel in Beverly Hills for 11 years before starting her firm.

Her civic and professional service include the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Commission, AIA Interior Architecture Advisory Group, Contract Magazine’s editorial advisory board, and jury member of many design award programs such as the AIA Honor Awards and the Prix de Rome. Annie has also been a dedicated educator since 1990 in architecture and design schools across the country and is currently Professor of Interior Architecture at Woodbury University, advancing the discipline through practice, scholarship, lectures and engagement.

Los Angeles Convention Center Addition Proposal: Interior Node credit: Rendering by Nephew LLC. Primary Design Team: Populous, HMC Architects, Olin, Chu+Gooding Architects.

A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living Exhibit at Hammer Museum
credit: Photography by Brian Forrest. Courtesy of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Rustic Canyon Residence 
credit: www.nilstimm.com

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