Director of Public Relations

Ann established her own PR and Marketing firm in 1993 after a period of filling that role in-house with architectural firms in Los Angeles and Copenhagen.  She has been involved with the AIA/Los Angeles Chapter on a several levels since 1968, fulfilling the role of home tour chairman and liaison to the AIA in 1970.  She successfully planned two series of lectures on architecture for UCLA’s Department of Arts+Humanities Form-givers and Trend-setters of Modern Architecture in the last Fifty Years in Europe and America in 1971 and Architecture Plus: A Contemporary Definition in 1973. She co-chaired the 9 IN 99-series of lectures at MOCA and advises on the Masters of Architecture lecture series at LACMA She successfully established the contact that lead to guest lecturers from SCI-Arc to the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Architecture School in Copenhagen and stimulated an exchange between Copenhagen, Berkeley and Los Angeles architecture schools. She was director of public affairs and media relations at Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, editor of the monthly newsletter and oversaw all publications. She currently represents architecture firms in Los Angeles as a media and marketing consultant for her own firm Design Communication.  She is a contributor to numerous magazines and books on architecture and design.