INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE COMMITTEE 2026
COMMITTEE CHAIR BIOS
Matt Gammel is the Director of Interiors, California, for Jacobs, where he leads a team of interior designers focused on Design and Experience related to Workplace and Occupancy Strategy. His team delivers – or is part of multi-disciplinary Jacobs teams that deliver – projects across the US in Life Sciences, Transportation, Aviation, Water and other Corporate/Commercial markets.
Prior to Jacobs, Gammel developed and led the Landlord Service Studio for Gensler, Los Angeles, working with public and private office ownerships, developers and tenants throughout LA County. In his early career, he contributed to firms such as ISD, Epstein/ISI and DCA Architects as a designer and project manager. He is a current board member of Affordable Living for the Aging (ALA) and past board member of CoreNet and LA Fire Department Foundation.
Gammel holds a Bachelor of Arts, Economics, degree and Master of Architecture degree, both from UCLA. His appointment to Vice Chair, Interior Architecture Committee, underlines his goal to advance the public’s and the architectural profession’s knowledge of the importance of Interior Architecture to quality daily experience and, hence, quality of life.
Vice Chair
Deb Longua-Zamero, CID | CIDQ | WELL AP | CLCid | AIA Allied Member
CEO | INTERIOR DESIGN PRINCIPAL
Deb Longua-Zamero [DLZ] is the purple-headed award-winning Certified Interior Designer in Los Angeles who founded DLZ INTERIORS after two decades collaborating with some of the most talented, brightest minds in design at the nation’s top architecture firms.
DLZ’s expertise lies in making the design process fun, pushing boundaries, designing spaces with great attention to detail, functionality, and out-of-the-box thinking. DLZ’s impressive client list includes a sitting U.S. President, Hollywood Legends and Icons, Multi-Family Developers, Luxury Estate Owners, Single Family Homeowners.
DLZ and her works have been featured in several publications, including Dwell.com, Ventura Blvd. Magazine, Interior Design Magazine, Contract Magazine, Designer Magazine, The Agency’s Daily Blog, Japan’s ECCIFO Magazine, Country Home Magazine, and DLZ was a contributing design expert for The Washington Post during the “Furniture Gate” scandal.
Awards include: Halo Award for Community Service, Best of HOUZZ, Shaw Contract Design Awards Category Finalist, BUILD Home & Garden Luxury Design Award, Design Is…Award, ASID Community Service Award, Designer Magazine Public Service Award, March of Dimes Public Service Award (multiple), ASID’s Outstanding Chapter Award, ASID Distinguished President Award, National Leadership Award.
Community involvement and volunteerism is a big part of DLZ’s DNA, and her passion for helping others knows no bounds.
Past Chair
Severine Tatangelo, Intl. Assoc. AIA
Séverine Tatangelo is a forward-thinker. French by birth, Angelina by adoption, Séverine has been working across the world as an architect for over 20 years, elevating her craft in the luxury sectors of high-end hospitality, and residential design. Through her work with Studio PCH, the boutique architectural firm she founded in Malibu, California, in 2008, Séverine engages in the social conversation, contributing to an ongoing change in lifestyles, while transcending rules, genres, and medium.
Séverine and her team have been providing dynamic designs, outstanding craftsmanship, and unparalleled building solutions for projects located around the globe.
Studio PCH’s stellar reputation was built on the many high-end hospitality projects (Nobu restaurants and luxury hotels) and upscale private residences that Séverine and her team excelled in creating and delivering.
