There was reason to celebrate diversity in architecture last month. The AIA awarded the Gold Medal to the wife-husband team of Angela Brooks and Larry Scarpa, founders of the Los Angeles firm Brooks + Scarpa, known for their design and advocacy work for affordable housing. They are the second couple to win the AIA’s highest prize (Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown were first, in 2016), and Brooks is only the third woman honored in the medal’s 115-year history (Julia Morgan was the other, awarded posthumously in 2014).
A day later, the AIA (with the ACSA) announced that its Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education would go to Deborah Berke, dean of the Yale School of Architecture since 2016, who also runs a successful New York practice. (Berke was similarly honored in October by RECORD with a Women in Architecture Design Leadership award.)
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