20 Facts About Lawrence Scarpa

Lawrence Scarpa was born on October 28,1959 and is an American architect and academic, based in Los Angeles, California.

Lawrence Scarpa has used conventional materials in unexpected ways and is considered a pioneer and leader in the field of sustainable design.

In 1976, Lawrence Scarpa's father moved the family to Winter Haven, Florida, where he opened a restaurant.

Lawrence Scarpa worked for Leedy and in his father's restaurant while attending the University of Florida.

Lawrence Scarpa then accepted a job and moved to New York City to work for architect Paul Rudolph for nearly two years until he returned to graduate school at the University of Florida in 1984.

In 2011, the firm name changed its name to Brooks + Lawrence Scarpa to reflect the firm's leadership under Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa.

Early in his career, Lawrence Scarpa completed many National AIA award-winning office projects.

Lawrence Scarpa's work has been exhibited at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and at other venues worldwide.

Lawrence Scarpa was featured in Newsweek and in a segment on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

In 2010, his firm, Pugh + Lawrence Scarpa, received the American Institute of Architects Firm Award, the highest award given to an architectural firm.

Lawrence Scarpa was elected to be a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects in 2010.

In 2014, Brooks + Lawrence Scarpa were the recipients of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Award in Architecture.

In 2015, Lawrence Scarpa received the American Institute of Architects California Council Lifetime Achievement Award.

Lawrence Scarpa was the recipient of the 2022 AIA Gold Medal by the American Institute of Architects.

Lawrence Scarpa is on the faculty at the University of Southern California.

Lawrence Scarpa has held teaching positions at several other universities for more than two decades.

Lawrence Scarpa was the 2014 BarberMcMurry Professor at the University of Tennessee.

Lawrence Scarpa was the 2012 visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and in 2011 was the Jon Jerde Distinguished Professor at the University of Southern California.

Lawrence Scarpa was the 2009 E Fay Jones Distinguished Chair in Architecture at the University of Arkansas, the 2008 Ruth and James Moore Visiting Professor at Washington University in St Louis, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Distinguished Professor in Architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, the 2004 Howard Friedman Fellow in Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley.

Lawrence Scarpa has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, Southern California Institute of Architecture, University of Florida, as well as several other higher-education institutions.