The founding partners of Pugh + Scarpa, the Santa Monica-based studio that won the 2010 AIA Architecture Firm Award, announced this week that they have parted ways. While breakups can be laden with conflict, Lawrence Scarpa emphasizes that their split has been cordial. “It has not been a nasty divorce, so to speak,” he says. “We’ve done it amicably.”
Gwynne Pugh officially left the 22-year-old firm on September 1 to start his own enterprise, Gwynne Pugh Urban Studio. Scarpa remains at the helm with Angela Brooks, who became Pugh + Scarpa’s third principal in 1999. They will keep the firm’s name for the remainder of this year, but plan to change it to Brooks + Scarpa in 2011.
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