March 5, 2021
Ann Lui
Founding Principal, Future Firm
Ann Lui, AIA, is Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan and founding principal of Future Firm. Future Firm is a Chicago-based architecture and design research practice that designs spaces for people to come together in new ways. Future Firm’s work has been exhibited at the Shenzhen Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Architecture\Urbanism, Storefront for Art & Architecture, and Exhibit Columbus (forthcoming). Ann was co-curator of the U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2018, titled Dimensions of Citizenship. She co-edited Public Space? Lost and Found (MIT/SA+P Press, 2015) on aesthetic and spatial practices in the civic realm. She holds an SMArchS in History, Theory and Criticism from MIT and a B.Arch from Cornell University.