Modern Dwelling, Lecture 2: Lawrence Scarpa

Join the second in our lecture series: Modern Dwelling, with speaker Lawrence Scarpa.

Modern Dwelling - Lecture 2

Lawrence Scarpa, Brooks Scarpa Huber

6:00 - 7:00pm

The Pavilion, 265 S Orange Ave., Sarasota, FL 34236

ABOUT THE SERIES

Exploring the future of housing through the lens of design, policy, and community. From design innovations to affordability strategies, and local policy frameworks.

Brian Healy, Brian Healy Architects

February 25, 2026 - 6:00 pm

Lawrence Scarpa, Brooks Scarpa Huber

March 31, 2026 - 6:00 pm

Shane Phillips, UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies

April 1, 2026 - 6:00 pm

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

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.

Mr. Scarpa is the recipient of the 2022 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal, the institute’s highest honor. He has received more than 200 major design awards including 21 National AIA Awards, 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, 5 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, and 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.