Alum Angela Brooks Receives 2024 Women in Architecture Design Leadership Award

SCI-Arc is thrilled to share that alum Angela Brooks, FAIA (M.Arch 1 ’91) has been announced as one of Architectural Record’s 2024 recipients of the prestigious Women in Architecture Design Leadership Awards.

Now in its 11th year, the awards program acknowledges and promotes the accomplishments of women in the profession of architecture and design. This year’s awardees will be honored at a reception held on the evening of October 1 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York; immediately following Architectural Record’s 2024 Innovation Conference.

Brooks, co-principal and president of Los Angeles—and Fort Lauderdale, Florida–based Brooks + Scarpa, is a leader in environmental and social-equity design. A practicing architect since 1991, Brooks is credited for Brooks + Scarpa’s advancement of affordable housing and overall firm management. She is the cofounder of the nonprofit Livable Places and a past chair of the AIA’s Commit­tee on the Environment. Accolades include the AIA|LA Presidential Citizen Architect Award (2020) and the AIA Cali­fornia May­beck Award (2020), of which she was the first female recipient. In 2022, Brooks and partner Lawrence Scarpa jointly received the AIA Gold Medal.

These five honorees—Angela Brooks, Mimi Hoang, Toni L. Griffin, Susan Jones, and Kate Simonen—join more than 50 design leaders who have been recognized since the program’s launch. This year’s awards jury comprised past award recipients Stella Betts and Anne Marie Duvall Decker; Yase­min Kologlu, principal at SOM; Chandra Robinson, principal at Lever Architecture; and Mark Gardner, principal at Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects.

For more information visit the Architectural Record’s website.