Brooks Scarpa Huber

The work of Lawrence Scarpa has redefined the role of the architect to produce some of the most remarkable and exploratory work today. He does this, not by escaping the restrictions of practice, but by looking, questioning and reworking the very process of design and building. Each project appears as an opportunity to rethink the way things normally get done – with material, form, construction, even financing – and to subsequently redefine it to cull out to latent potentials – as Lawrence aptly describes: making the “ordinary extraordinary.” This produces entirely inventive work; work that is quite difficult to categorize. It is environmentally sustainable, but not ‘sustainable design;’ it employs new materials, digital practices and technologies, but is not ‘tech or digital;’ it is socially and community conscious, but not politically correct. Rather, it is deeply rooted in conditions of the everyday, and works with our perception and preconceptions to allow us to see things in new ways.
Mr. Scarpa is the recipient of the 2022 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, the institute’s highest honor. has received more than 200 major design awards including twenty-one National AIA Awards, the 2024 ACSA/AIA Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal, Architect Magazine’s HIVE 50 Innovator Award, 2017 National AIA Collaborative Achievement Award, 2017 AIA Los Angeles Chapter Gold Medal, 2018, 2016 & 2014 Architect Magazine’s Top 50 Architecture Firms (ranked 2nd, 4th and 9th respectively), 2015 AIA California Council Lifetime Achievement Award, 2014 Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Record Interiors, 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize, five AIA COTE “Top Ten Green Building” Awards and was a finalist for the World Habitat Award, one of ten firms selected worldwide. In 2004 The Architectural League of New York selected him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture. His work has been exhibited internationally including the National Building Museum in Washington, DC. He has been Featured in NEWSWEEK and appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show. In 2009 Interior Design Magazine honored him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2010, his firm Brooks Scarpa Huber was awarded the National and State of California Architecture Firm Award from the American Institute of Architects.
He has taught and lectured at the university level at numerous schools. Since 2013 he has been on the faculty at the University of Southern California. He was also the 2012 Visiting Professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 2011 and 2012 John Jerde Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California, the 2010 Ivan Smith Eminent Visiting Professor at the University of Florida, 2009 E. Fay Jones Visiting Professor at the University of Arkansas, the 2008 Ruth and James Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan, 2005 Max Fisher Visiting Professor at Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, 2004 Freidman Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a co-founder of Livable Places, Inc.; a nonprofit development and public policy organization dedicated to building mixed-use housing on under-utilized and problematic parcels of land. Most recently he co-founded the Affordable Housing Design Leadership Institute (AHDLI) to help develop more sustainable and livable communities.

As the Managing Principal at Brooks Scarpa Huber, Angie supervises all of the office operations and ensures that each project remains on time and on budget by enforcing project deadlines, coordinating communications between all parties, and rigorously tracking finances. Her hands-on involvement runs from schematic design through completion of construction and post-occupancy and she is a recognized leader in the field of environmental and sustainable design and construction. She has pioneered more holistic ways of delivering affordable housing, sustainable architecture and advances in social equity.
Angie has been practicing architecture since 1991 and is also responsible for firm development in the area of housing and policy, leading the firm’s sustainable initiatives and overall management. She was a peer reviewer for Global Green USA’s book Blueprint for Greening Affordable Housing and was featured in the book Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design for her policy work with Livable Places and on Fuller Lofts, a sustainable mixed-use project designed to be a catalyst for neighborhood revitalization.
Angela is the recipient of the 2022 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, the institute’s highest honor. She also received the recipient of the 2021 Maybeck Award, the first woman to every receive California's highest architectural honor. Other awards include the 2024 ACSA/AIA Tau Sigma Delta Gold Medal, National AIA Young Architects Award in 2009 and her firm has received more than twenty National AIA Awards, five Top Ten Green (COTE) Awards, the State of California and National AIA Architecture Firm of the Year Award in 2010 and the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award in Architecture in 2014.
Ms. Brooks was a co-founder and past President of Livable Places, Inc., a non-profit development company dedicated to building sustainable mixed-use housing in the city of Los Angeles on under-utilized and problematic parcels of land as a reaction against Southern California’s suburban sprawl. She has served as an advisor to the National Endowment of the Arts, Mayors Institute on City Design, the Advisory Board of Solar Santa Monica and currently is past-chair of the National AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Advisory Group, whose mission is to lead the profession’s involvement in environmental and design initiatives towards a more sustainable planet for all.
Angela is a powerful advocate for the rich, multivalent impact of good design. Ms. Brooks sees architecture as an instrument for the triple bottom line and the delivery vehicle for space that encourages occupants to flourish. She has pursued advancing ideas that promote larger societal well-being through policy organizations and her work in this area has garnered her mainstream recognition in print and media, such as Newsweek Magazine and her USA Network 2010 Character Approved Award.

Jeffrey Huber, FAIA, ASLA, NCARB, LEED AP, WEDG, is a principal of Brooks Scarpa Huber and manages the firm’s South Florida studio. He also serves as Director of Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Planning. In addition to practice, he is a Professor in the School of Architecture at Florida Atlantic University in downtown Fort Lauderdale. Huber holds master’s degrees and professional licenses in both architecture and landscape architecture, and his work spans the intersection of ecological systems, public space, urban design, and resilient architectural strategies.
A distinguished architect and landscape architect, Huber specializes in public realm projects that integrate environmental performance with design excellence. His work advances sustainability through initiatives in soft cities, agricultural urbanism, green school design, missing-middle housing, transit-oriented development, low-impact development/green infrastructure, and adaptation and transformation methodologies responding to emerging climate disruptions. His projects include Salty Urbanism; the Fast Forward Fort Lauderdale Design and Construction Manual; DC Alexander Park in Fort Lauderdale; the Youth Sports Complex and Centennial Park in Pompano Beach; the Mennello Museum of American Art in Orlando; the Art and Arts & Culture Center in Hollywood; The Heron and Vista Breeze elderly affordable housing; the 41st Street Corridor Revitalization and Collins Park Mixed-Use Garage in Miami Beach; and the University of Florida School of Architecture renovations and UF Collaboratory expansion in Gainesville.
Huber’s research, teaching, and professional work have earned more than 80 national design awards, including multiple Progressive Architecture Awards, AIA National Institute Honor Awards in Architecture and Regional & Urban Design, honors from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA), the American Architecture Awards, EDRA/Places, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). His work has been widely published in Architect, Residential Architect, The Plan, The Plan Journal, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Architectural Record, and numerous books and design annuals. Huber has taught at the University of Florida, Mississippi State University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Arkansas, and he has presented dozens of papers worldwide on landscape urbanism, housing, adaptation design, transportation, and the design of resilient cities and neighborhoods.
He has secured more than $4 million in federal, state, and local funding to support his interdisciplinary design and research work, including two NOAA Sea Grants for adaptation planning, an AIA Upjohn Research Initiative Grant, and additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kellogg Foundation, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Huber currently serves as Vice President of AIA Florida and previously served as a Strategic Councilor for AIA National. His academic and leadership experience includes roles as Interim Director of the School of Architecture and Director of the MetroLab Collaborative at Florida Atlantic University, as well as Assistant Director of the University of Arkansas Community Design Center, an internationally recognized outreach and research organization.
A South Florida native, Huber has worked with and consulted for numerous regional and national firms. He received his Bachelor of Design and Master of Architecture from the University of Florida and a Master of Landscape Architecture + Environmental and Urban Design from Florida International University.