Interior Architecture Advisory Council

Designer Anne Cunningham is a founding member and a co-chair of the Interior Architecture Advisory Council. She has more than 30 years of experience in the design field. She was a design principal at NBBJ Architects for more than 27 years and, in 2019, left to start her own consulting practice—Tarpaulin Studio—where she currently works on civic and mixed-use projects in the Seattle area. Throughout her career, she has worked on projects for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Boeing, Microsoft, and Vulcan. During the COVID-19 quarantine, Cunningham and her family have been restoring a 1964 Cheoy Lee Lion sloop. She taught an interior architecture studio in Fall 2020 as the Distinguished Margo Grant Walsh Visiting Professor of the Department of Interior Architecture at the University of Oregon.

Barry Richards is a principal and studio leader at Rockwell Group, where he brings his multifaceted skill set to work. Projects include the Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta and Walt Disney Family Museum, the breakthrough Imagination Playground initiative, as well as leading product design for a host of high-end collections with Knoll, Roche Bobois, Benchmark, The Rug Company, Bisazza, Stellar Works, Rich Brilliant Willing, Maya Romanoff, Jim Thompson, Gessi and Shaw Hospitality Group. Other recent work includes Capital One Café prototypes and an office headquarters in Pasadena, California.

Barry is well known for his set design for film, television, and theater, including the 2009 and 2010 Academy Awards; the film Team America: World Police; and many critically acclaimed Broadway shows including Hairspray and Catch Me If You Can. His designs for high-profile special event spaces include those for the annual Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS event and the Chefs' Tribute to Citymeals on Wheels, both to which Rockwell Group is a perennial contributor.

Recent honors include Interior Design magazine’s HiP Award for Leader, Creative Mind; Contract Magazine’s Best of NeoCon Award for Rockwell Unscripted, an Interior Design Best of Year Award for the Center for Civil and Human Rights and the Architect’s Newspaper Visionary Award for David Rockwell for Rich Brilliant Willing.

Barry is a graduate of the University of Washington in Fine Arts and Architecture and of Princeton University, Master of Architecture.

Catherine Johnson, AIA, is a co-founder of Design, Bitches, a Los Angeles-based architectural design firm with a bold and irreverent vision to make architecture significant in daily life. The firm has received numerous design awards including AIA/LA Additions & Accessory Dwelling Units Merit Award in 2020, Architecture/Educational & Sports Design Award from 9 Dots in 2019, AIA/LA Residential Architecture Citation Award in 2018; named Top 50 Interior Architects by Architect’s Newspaper in 2019; shortlisted for the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture; and selected as the 2017 recipient of AIA/LA’s Emerging Practice Award to name a few. Catherine and her partner, Rebecca Rudolph co-taught interior architecture at the University of Oregon in 2016 as the Distinguished Margo Grant Walsh Visiting Professors. They also lectured at Columbia University, Yale University, CalArts, UCLA, and George Washington University, and were the keynote speakers at the New Zealand Institute of Architects Inaugural Festival of Architecture. Johnson earned her MArch from SCI-Arc and her BIArch from the University of Oregon.

Flavia Grey, PhD, is a Principal at ZGF Architects and leads ZGF’s firmwide Data Strategy R&D group.

Grey partners with clients and project teams to incorporate data-driven decision-making into all phases of design, from concept development to construction administration and beyond. She taps into new and existing streams of data to inform and objectively assess the efficacy of ZGF’s work to provide the healthiest, most productive spaces for end users. She strengthens the firm’s designs with occupancy evaluations, space utilization studies, statistical analysis, data visualization, simulations, and other project-specific and firmwide research initiatives. Her team also develops and maintains benchmarking tools to inform and optimize programming for various building typologies.

Since 2017, Grey has hosted the popular U.S. Green Building Council podcast “Built for Health,” in which she interviews public health professionals, researchers, and building-industry practitioners about designing, building, and operating healthier buildings. She graduated with a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering and a MS in Sustainable Design and Construction from Stanford University where she studied on the dynamic interaction between occupant well-being, knowledge-work productivity, and building sustainability, leveraging tools such as wearable sensor technologies, artificial intelligence, and big data visualization.

Diane Lund worked 18 years as a commercial interior designer and the last 16 years in sales.

She started her career at NBBJ in the Retail and Healthcare Studios. Diane moved on to focus on Dental Surgery Centers and Healthcare Facilities in Washington and throughout Alaska. The largest part of her design career was as a project manager at a firm focusing on Hospitality, specifically 10-400 passenger luxury cruise vessels, passenger train cruising, high-speed Catamaran Ferries, and Casinos.

Diane then switched gears to sales. After specifying Spinneybeck leather for 18+ years, she accepted a position as Territory Manager for Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and British Columbia. Knoll was the parent company before the recent Herman Miller acquisition combined the two modern furniture giants to become the now known, MillerKnoll. Diane’s Spinneybeck+FilzFelt division focuses on natural materials- leather, wool, cork, and wood. She has collaborated with design firms on projects including Google, Microsoft, Gates Foundation, Expedia, T-Mobile, Nike, Amazon, and Nordstrom.

After living and working in Seattle, she recently transitioned to Bend, Oregon where she resides with her husband and high school-aged younger son. Their older adult son resides in the Seattle area. In her off time, Diane enjoys golfing, skiing, snowmobiling, hiking, and baking.

Lindsay Suprenant is a University of Oregon alumna, where she earned her Master's of Architecture and Interior Architecture degrees. She lives in her native Chicago where she works on the Interior Design team at Holabird and Root. Her work is focused primarily on K-12 and higher education projects, although she has experience in workplace and boutique medical office design. She is interested in the impact design has on health and human wellness and is a WELL accredited professional.

Keely holds a BArch in Interior Architecture with a Minor in Architecture from the University of Oregon’s College of Design. While in school, she was given the opportunity to study and work abroad in Europe and Southeast Asia, which both invigorated and reinforced her passions in the design world. This invaluable experience is something she carries with her throughout her current work. Most recently, Keely is a project leader at West of West Architecture and Design Studio in Portland, Oregon, where she leads the interiors projects in project management, space planning, and design. With a serious interest in different scales of design, she has worked on an array of project types and sizes. These range from small scale furniture design and retail design to larger scale commercial repositions, including hospitality-based interiors, creative workplace design, and multifamily housing projects. Keely finds that no matter the scale, her approach is always consistent: the design process is always driven by the user. She approaches each design opportunity to solve problems and create thoughtfully curated, experience-driven projects.