Principal
Brooks + Scarpa Architects, Inc
Angie was the first woman ever to be awarded the AIA California Maybeck Award and is a powerful advocate for the rich, multivalent impact of good design. Angela sees architecture as an instrument for the triple bottom line and the delivery vehicle for space that encourages communities to flourish. She has pursued advancing ideas beyond buildings that promote larger societal wellbeing through policy organizations and she has worked selflessly for her profession through the local, state and national organizations. She is a recognized leader in the field of environmental and social-equity design and is responsible for her firm’s development in the area of housing and policy, leading initiatives and overall firm management. Practicing architecture since 1991, she has garnered mainstream recognition in print and media, such as Newsweek Magazine and her USA Network 2010 Character Approved Award; she co-founded a non-profit to promote good policy, density and livable communities and she lectures extensively on these topics. Angela received the National AIA Young Architects Award in 2009 and her firm has received more than twenty National AIA Awards, six Top Ten Green (COTE) Awards, the State of California and National AIA Architecture Firm of the Year Award in 2010, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture in 2014, the HIVE 50 Innovator Award in 2017 and 2020 and the 2022 National AIA Gold Medal, the AIA’s highest honor, for their "pioneering brand of architecture that profoundly enriches the human experience." Angela was 2018 Chair of the National AIA’s Committee on the Environment (COTE), developing programs and advocating for policy changes at the Federal level-promoting design that achieves high levels of performance. In 2020, Angie received recognition as a Citizen Architect by AIA National, was awarded the 2020 AIALA Presidential Citizen Architect Award and the 2020 Maybeck Award for exemplary achievement in architectural design and ‘a different kind of legacy’. Angie and her partner Larry recently received the 2022 AIA Gold Medal, for their significant influence on the theory and practice of architecture.