Sue Associates was established in 1963 as an Architectural Design firm and has since then, completed successful planning projects both in Asia and in the United States. Our firm has a network of multi-disciplinary consultants and can call upon the expertise of these firms to form a design team geared to meet the unique needs of each project specifically.

Sue Associates is headquartered in the United States, but has the capability to provide services in Asia as well. Our project Teams are composed of staff members chosen for the locale of each project and have in past experiences, formed teams with local firms. This approach has been highly successful in allowing design and construction documents to be prepared with standards suitable for local use. Every project is geared towards the particular needs of each client. Our philosophy is to encourage an ongoing dialogue with the local community and client to evolve the best possible combination of contemporary and local aesthetic vernacular. As a result, Sue Associates has received numerous awards for outstanding design. Our firm is equipped with the latest technological equipment and software and provides numerous in-house capabilities, such as model making and presentation renderings. Our staff includes licensed California Contractors as well as Architects with a support staff of Computer draftsmen and programmers. We are fully capable of providing Construction Management Services in addition to Architectural Design Services.

“…with every project, we strive to provide imaginative design solutions which are functional, practical and can be completed within budget: all without compromising our priorities for outstanding design.”

Mr. Sue has over 40 years of private practice in architecture, construction, and construction management in Asia and for 36 years in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is a licensed architect as well as being a licensed Contractor in California and has earned both his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Architecture and Master of Architecture and City Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. Mr. Sue served 9 years as a Planning Commissioner for the City of Oakland. Besides his practice as an architect, Mr. Sue is an ordained minister by the San Francisco Presbytery. He is a member of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in China and has served as Minister in Pastorates in California, the University of Michigan, Thailand and Hong Kong.

Ms. Sue is both a licensed architect and contractor in California with over 10 years of experience in private practice in planning and design for both private and public projects. She earned her B.A. with a major in Architecture and M.Arch. at the University of California at Berkeley and attended the postgraduate program at The Berlage Institute in Amsterdam, Holland. She has also served as an assistant lecturer at the Architecture Department at the Chinese University in Hong Kong. Ms. Sue was a Scholarship awardee and participant for the “Small Changes” Conference for Urbanism in Zagreb in Croatia and also for the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design in Venice, Italy. She was the winner of the Charles Moore Memorial Scholarship and the esteemed Eisner Award in Architecture. In practice, her work on the Westminster House Student Housing project won the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association Design Award in 2004.