Lawrence Scarpa
A DISCUSSION WITH LAWRENCE SCARPA, AiA
THURSDAY, JUNE 26TH, 2008 NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART
Lawrence Scarpa is a recognized leader in design innovation: formal, social, and sustainable. Under his direction as Lead Designer of Pugh + Scarpa, the firm has received 36 major design awards, notably eleven national AIA Awards, including 2006 and 2003 AIA Committee on the Environment “Top Ten Green Project” awards, 2005 Record Houses, 2003 Record Interiors, 2003 Rudy Bruner Prize, and finalist for the 2002 United Nation’s World Habitat Award. In 2004, The Architectural League of New York selected him as an “Emerging Voice” in architecture. His work was recently on exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC.
He has taught and lectured at the university level at numerous schools including UCLA, University of Florida, Mississippi State University and SCI-arc. He is the 2008 Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor at Washington Univerisy, the 2007 Eliel Saarinen Visiting Professor at the Alfred Taubman College of Architecture at the University of Michigan, 2005 Univerisy of Michigan Max Fisher Visiting Fellow, and 2004 Friedman Fellow at the Univerisy of California at Berkeley. Mr. Scapra is also a co-founder and current board memeber of Livable Places, a non-profit development and policy organization dedicated to promoting healthy communities and improving quality of life through policy reform and responsible mixed-use housing developments.
Doors open at 5:00pm and the lecture will begin at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 per person and are available at the door, or may be purchased from the Nevada Museum of Art - 329.3333 or the BRDI - 328.1010 prior to the event. AIA Continuing Education Credits available.