Brooks + Scarpa

Brooks + Scarpa, renamed Brooks Scarpa Huber Architects, is a design collective of architects, designers and creative thinkers. Its practice joins architecture with landscape, planning and several design crafts so that a single team shapes a whole building or public space. Projects span the United States as well as Riyadh, several Chinese cities and Mexico.

What Brooks + Scarpa offers

• Architecture — museums, arts centres, schools, offices, housing and mixed-use buildings.
• Landscape architecture and planning — parks, streetscapes and urban plans.
• Environmental design and materials research — work aimed at sustainable buildings and places.
• Interior, furniture and graphic design — design inside buildings and for their identity.

Who it works with

The firm designs for cities, arts bodies, schools, developers and housing providers. Examples include affordable housing in Santa Monica, an urban plan for Miami Beach, a mixed-use scheme in Chicago, headquarters and housing in Riyadh, and residential towers in Shenzhen and Chengdu.

Key facts

• Current name: Brooks Scarpa Huber Architects
• Recognition: 2014 National Design Award from the Smithsonian
• Disciplines: Architecture, landscape, planning, interior and graphic design