Anne Schopf, FAIA
Partner Emeritus, Senior Principal, Director of Design

“I am driven by my instinct to create order and serenity within an increasingly chaotic and dislocated world. I do that by re-connecting to the diversity of Mother Nature’s gifts, the seasons and the cycles of life. My favorite activity: forest bathing – any season, any location.”

Working across all studios in the firm in her role as a Senior Principal and Director of Design, Anne continually challenges teams to question deeply and listen intently to support the firm’s goal of creating healthy and sustainable spaces for their clients and the communities they serve.

Under her leadership, Mahlum was recognized with the 2014 American Institute of Architects Northwest and Pacific Region (AIA NWPR) Firm Award.

A dedicated champion of design excellence and environmental stewardship, Anne’s projects and professional activism continually enhance the discourse on design and place. With more than 80 regional and national design awards to her credit, she continually strives for the highest quality of design within strict parameters of performance.

Anne is the recipient of the 2013 AIA NWPR Medal of Honor, the highest commendation presented to an individual by the region, recognizing excellence in design, the practice of architecture, architectural education, and service to the profession. Elevated to Fellow in the AIA in 2007, she received a Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in both Civil Engineering and Building Sciences from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is a registered architect in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, New York, Colorado, Montana, Hawaii, Alaska, and Missouri.

Lance Collins, AIA, NOMA,
LEED AP (BD+C), cSBA, GGP, GGA-EB
Director at Partner Energy

Lance Collins is a Director at Partner Energy with over 20+ years of experience in architecture, urban design, and sustainable design consulting. His experience includes whole building energy analysis, benchmarking, energy and water conservation measures, resource consumption reduction strategies, Green Certification project management (i.e. LEED, GreenPoint Rated, ENERGY STAR, Net Zero, etc), building commissioning, renewable energy project development, and project / construction management.

A licensed architect in California, Lance has provided design and consulting solutions for various types of buildings, including institutional, office, mixed-use, retail, schools, and multifamily residential properties. Lance has led the completion of more than 50 Green certified projects including LEED Platinum, and Net-Zero projects for new buildings and existing construction for Partner Energy clients.

Lance is also a guest lecturer at colleges and universities teaching green building principles and sustainable design strategies to young students as well as industry professionals. He has presented at numerous green building conferences and events including the USGBC-LA MGBCE and NOMA National conference. His writing on sustainability and energy efficiency has been featured in a number of publications including GlobeSt.com, Sustainable Industries, and other online platforms. Outside of work, Lance currently serves as the President of the Southern California chapter of the National Organization of Minority Architects, SoCalNOMA.

Credentials
American Institute of Architects (AIA)
California Architects Board (CAB)
Certified Sustainable Building Advisor (CSBA)
Green Globes Assessor – Existing Buildings (GGA-EB)
Green Globes Professional (GGP)
LEED AP Building Design + Construction (BD+C)

Winka Dubbeldam, Assoc. AIA
Founder, Archi-Tectonics
Director/CEO, SCI-Arc

Archi-Tectonics, founded in 1998 by Winka Dubbeldam, and now co-led with Justin Korhammer (2016), Archi-Tectonics is a global design studio headquartered in New York City, with offices in Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Hangzhou. The firm is engaged in over 250,000 sqm of new developments across North America and Europe, including an urban superblock of 31-story residential towers and urban forest in Albania.
Innovation through Collaboration / Non-Standard – We foster creative synergies to generate highly efficient, adaptable buildings and environments by fully integrating a team of creative collaborators, engineers, and fabricators into the design process. Working closely with manufacturers through continuous prototyping and pre-fabrication, enables us to disrupt the standards and limitations of conventional building production, and to generate highly customized but economic structures and materialities.

Designs through Research, Prototyping, and Testing – We value performance over form and design intelligence over style and use 3D digital generative design processes that create new building forms that deliver optimized for performance and identity. Archi-Tectonics continuously refine these forms through extensive testing and prototyping to deliver purpose-driven, efficient, sustainable, and imaginative solutions for 21st-century challenges.

Adaptive Hybrids and Organic Systems – We think of buildings as active systems rather than inert objects. Like organisms, our buildings dynamically adapt to their environments, and are designed to be energy efficient, and react to changing functional demands, thus expanding the traditional boundaries of program and typology. By treating buildings, landscape, and environments as a continuum, and by understanding architecture as a way of shaping processes and flows, we create buildings that have agency in their environments and ecospheres and promote the well-being of both the inhabitants and their habitat.

Archi-Tectonics’ work has been exhibited and presented internationally, with exhibits the Venice Biennale [2025, 2023], the AIANY, AEDES Berlin, the Bunker Munich, and MoMa and MoCa among others. Winka spoke at global forums and climate conferences such as COP Dubai [2023], AIA New York [2024], UIA Copenhagen [2023], CTBUH Singapore, and gave a TED talk in Edinburgh Scotland.

Archi-Tectonics’ work has been widely recognized with awards including the CTBUH Award of Excellence, the Luban Prize, the Architizer A+ Award, The PLAN Award, and multiple honors from AIANY.

The firm’s research and projects have been published in five monographs: Monsters and Mutants: Explorations in the Architecture–Nature Continuum (Park Books, 2025); Strange Objects, New Solids And Massive Things (Actar, 2021); Archi-Tectonics: Winka Dubbeldam (DAAB, 2011); AT-INdex (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007); and Winka Dubbeldam, Architect (010 Publishers, 1996).

Archi-Tectonics is a certified Women Business Enterprise (WBE) in New York State.

Chava Danielson, AIA
Past President (2025), AIA Los Angeles
Principal, DSH // architecture

Chava Danielson, AIA, a native Angeleno, is Principal of DSH // architecture, with specialties in design, project advocacy, and serving non-profit organizations committed to their communities. She focuses on imparting beauty and sensitive programming to recharge underserved neighborhoods through educational, therapeutic and residential projects.

Danielson is Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Architecture. She currently co-chairs the AIA Los Angeles’ Government Outreach Committee and has served as a Director for the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design. She holds an M.Arch. from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley.