Live Learn Eat: Architecture of Anthony Poon

About Anthony PoonMichael WebbPool Design Inc.

Educated as a multi-disciplinary designer Anthony Poon is an award-winning architect and musician. Spanning three decades of professional experience he is a LEED-accredited architect licensed in California and Virginia and a member of the American Institute of Architects - as well as a classical pianist mixed-media artist and published author. Poon received his Masters in Architecture from Harvard University and his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California Berkeley magna cum laude. He is a frequent public speaker at national and regional conferences and panels as well as schools and universities. Poon is also a member of the Modern and Contemporary Art Council for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Poon was a performing artist for the 2012 Architects in Concert and a selected mixed-media artist for national art shows www.anthonypoonart.com. Poon''s book Sticks and Stones / Steel and Glass: One Architect''s Journey has received critical acclaim and he writes regularly on architecture and design at www.anthonypoon.com. Poon Design Inc. a multi-disciplinary practice offers services in architecture and interiors programming and master planning furniture design and graphics and other design-related services. Launched in 2001 the company''s award-winning design talents serve national and international clients with over 300 completed projects of various types: residential commercial educational religious cultural and mixed-use. The work of Poon Design has received over 50 national honours and has been featured in the Wall Street Journal the Los Angeles Times Dwell Los Angeles Magazine Architectural Record Architecture and Interior Design. Poon Design received the 2018 National Design Award for Best in Housing from the American Institute of Architects. The studio is also recognised for the re-envisioning of America''s tract-housing industry with two-dozen national design awards from the AIA NAHB and BIA. Michael Webb has authored 25 books on architecture and design most recently Architects'' Houses and a memoir Moving Around: A Lifetime of Wandering while editing and contributing essays to a score of monographs. He is also a regular contributor to leading journals in the United States Asia and Europe.