Interview: Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa
Photo by Amanda Friedman
The winners of the 2022 AIA Gold Medal, the organization?s top award, are Angela Brooks, FAIA and Lawrence Scarpa, FAIA, co-founders of the Hawthorne, California?based firm Brooks + Scarpa. Those familiar with their work will not be surprised to learn that this well-deserved honour has been over 30 years in the making?with much more in store.
AIA Canada Society?s Pauline Thimm caught up with Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa this July to find out more about what they stand for, how they have evolved, and where they are going.
Pauline Thimm: On behalf of AIA Canada, I am thrilled to congratulate you on your Gold medal win. At this moment of intense interest, how would you like people to know you"
Lawrence Scarpa: We want to be known as ?artists who are citizen-architects?. We really believe that good design is for everyone. Art and craft are important, and that has always been part of the artistic mission, but purpose is equally important. We work with purpose. Angela Brooks: Not everyone knows that we did not start out working together. We first met in architectural school in Florida, and moved to California after school. Larry started a small practice with another partner. I started out working for a non-profit development company, to get a more pragmatic understanding of how communities are developed. I was never really interested in only designing a singular building?I?ve always been interested in exploring the bigger ideas. I was a...
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