Lecture by Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa (February 2023)
Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa are the recipients of the 2022 American Institute of Architects GOLD Medal, the institute’s highest honor. Their firm Brooks + Scarpa is the recipient of multiple international awards including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award in Architecture and the AIA National Firm Award. Scarpa is also the recipient of lifetime achievement awards from Interior Design magazine and the AIA California Council. Brooks + Scarpa's work is deeply rooted in conditions of the everyday, and works with our perception and preconceptions to allow us to see things in new ways. They do this, not by escaping the restrictions of practice, but by looking, questioning and reworking the very process of design and building, rethinking the way things normally get done––with material, form, construction, even financing––and to subsequently redefine it to cull out architecture's latent potentials––making the ordinary extraordinary.
Their lecture, entitled "Ordinary and Extraordinary," will look at innovation and novel applications of building materials, and how they relate to the architectural design process and sustainable design strategies. Why do we remember buildings, locations and experiences? Even a place visited in our childhood can conjure emotions that make an impact on us through the memories they create. Scarpa and Brooks will explain the creative process that aspires to make a lasting impression out of even a brief encounter.
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