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Published on: 5/1/2009
Last Visited: 6/30/2009
Based in Los Angeles, Chu + Gooding Architects offers distinctive architectural design to institutional, education and arts related clients.
Emphasizing high design quality, attention to detail of spatial perception, materiality, and performance, the firm is founded on the belief that a successful environment must be both engaging and useful.
Both principals Annie Chu and Rick Gooding along with partner Michael Matteucci strongly advocate a collaborative design process.
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Annie Chu of Chu + Gooding Architects was kind enough to speak with us about the various aspects of museum design.
Chu explains, "For museums and other cultural institutions that have a public face, so much of their building, their grounds, and their program are part of the total image.
For example, here in Los Angeles, the design of the Getty Center really represents their image.
Sometimes smaller museums don't realize that the whole facility is so much a part of their brand, and that people associate the buildings and the grounds with the museum in their imagery.
In museum work, we actually get to work with graphic designers or branding consultants who really study the market and the demographics for the museum and then go from there, and it influences the way that we then design the building."
According to Chu, many of the building materials used in the design of museums and public institutions are those that are more durable, such as stone.
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Annie Chu was the Principal in Charge of the renovation of The Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Lousiville, a project that took a year to complete.
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"For museum designs," Chu explains, "one of the key points of bringing a successful project into being is really the planning process which is typically done with a museum consultant.