Lawrence Scarpa
*28. 10. 1959 – Queens, USA
Brooks + Scarpa
3929 W. 139th Street, CA 90250 Hawthorne+1 323 596 4700
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www.brooksscarpa.com
Biography
Lawrence Scarpa is an American architect originally from Queens, New York, but settled in the Los Angeles area. He is mainly known for using common materials in unexpected ways. His designs are generally environmentally friendly and utilize alternative energy sources.
He came from a family with Jewish-Italian roots. After his mother's death, the family moved to Florida to Miami in 1967, where he began to take an interest in architecture by helping his father with small construction projects after school. On the construction sites, Scarpa often built small objects made from building debris and other small pieces of wood found at the site with his father. In 1976, his father moved to Winter Haven, Florida, where he opened a restaurant. Scarpa became acquainted with a frequent guest, Gene Leedy, a member of the Sarasota School of Architecture, who became his mentor while he started studying architecture at the University of Florida. After graduation, he moved to Boca Grande, where he worked for Leedy as a construction manager. He then moved to New York for two years, where he worked for Paul Rudolph. In 1984, he returned for graduate studies at the University of Florida. After that, he moved to Vicenza, Italy, for two years. Upon his return, he began teaching at the University of Florida, where he met his future wife Angela Brooks, whom he married in 1987. The couple then moved to San Francisco, and a year later, they relocated to Los Angeles. In 1991, after three years of prior collaboration, he founded the firm Pugh + Scarpa with engineer Gwynne Pugh, which was renamed Brooks + Scarpa in 2011. Scarpa has served as a professor at the University of Southern California for over two decades.
Lawrence Scarpa is an American architect originally from Queens, New York, but settled in the Los Angeles area. He is mainly known for using common materials in unexpected ways. His designs are generally environmentally friendly and utilize alternative energy sources.
He came from a family with Jewish-Italian roots. After his mother's death, the family moved to Florida to Miami in 1967, where he began to take an interest in architecture by helping his father with small construction projects after school. On the construction sites, Scarpa often built small objects made from building debris and other small pieces of wood found at the site with his father. In 1976, his father moved to Winter Haven, Florida, where he opened a restaurant. Scarpa became acquainted with a frequent guest, Gene Leedy, a member of the Sarasota School of Architecture, who became his mentor while he started studying architecture at the University of Florida. After graduation, he moved to Boca Grande, where he worked for Leedy as a construction manager. He then moved to New York for two years, where he worked for Paul Rudolph. In 1984, he returned for graduate studies at the University of Florida. After that, he moved to Vicenza, Italy, for two years. Upon his return, he began teaching at the University of Florida, where he met his future wife Angela Brooks, whom he married in 1987. The couple then moved to San Francisco, and a year later, they relocated to Los Angeles. In 1991, after three years of prior collaboration, he founded the firm Pugh + Scarpa with engineer Gwynne Pugh, which was renamed Brooks + Scarpa in 2011. Scarpa has served as a professor at the University of Southern California for over two decades.
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