Anne Whitacre, Associate AIA, FCSI, CCS

Gehry Partners, LLP

Los Angeles, CA

“My years on MARC have done more to increase my sense of professionalism than anything I’ve done in my 30 year career.  This committee has helped me to develop a national network of resources, see my position as integral to industry quality control, and given me a group of like-minded professionals to commiserate with.”

Anne Whitacre, FSCI, CCS, has been writing construction specifications for 30 years and is currently the specifications writer for Gehry Partners, LLP in Los Angeles, CA. Prior to moving to Gehry Partners, Anne Whitacre was an associate partner of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca (ZGF) Partnership, Seattle WA.  Ms. Whitacre wrote project specifications for the Seattle office and three other offices: Portland, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC.  She was involved in overall quality control and direction for specifications and provided some continuing education.

Ms. Whitacre began using MASTERSPEC in 1998 for a firm that has been a user for 30 years. She is impressed with MASTERSPEC’s supporting documents and the high degree of research that goes into each section. Ms. Whitacre joined the review committee in 2000.

Ms. Whitacre's  primary experience has been in medical research facilities, laboratories, and health care, but has encompassed a variety of commercial and institutional bulding types and a few well known corporate clients.   She finds this long sense of history in the construction industry very satisfying.

Ms. Whitacre‘s many accomplishments include: Owning her own consulting practice for ten years 1988-1997 and becoming a Fellow in CSI in 2006.  She is currently a CSI board member from the northwest region, served a three-year term on the institute certification committee, was the Puget Sound (Seattle) chapter president 1988-1989, and was president of the Puget Sound Chapter CSI foundation.

She is well known in the Seattle area as a writer and lecturer on architectural and specification topics. A recent transplant to southern California, Ms. Whitacre is a third-generation Washington State native and is still a coffee drinker.