Ann Lui, AIA, is a founding principal of Future Firm, a Chicago-based architecture and design research practice. She is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the University of Michigan, and was previously Cullinan Visiting Professor at Rice University. Future Firm designs spaces for changemakers, with a focus on commercial and cultural buildings; it was awarded the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize in 2021 and has been exhibited at the Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture, Storefront for Art & Architecture, and the Chicago Architecture Center.
Lui’s work explores the intersections of professional practice, collectivity, and the built environment. She was co-curator of Dimensions of Citizenship, the 2018 U.S. Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. She co-edited the publications Public Space? Lost and Found (MIT/SA+P Press, 2015) and Log 53, “Coauthoring” (2022). Her current research explores building codes through the lens of social equity, including the recently published "Toward an Office of the Public Architect” (Log 48).
