Brooks + Scarpa Managing Principal Angela Brooks has been practicing architecture since 1991. She is a past-chair of the National AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE) Advisory Group. She has served as an advisor to the National Endowment of the Arts, Mayors Institute on City Design, and the Advisory Board of Solar Santa Monica. She received the National AIA Young Architects Award in 2009, and her firm has received more than 20 National AIA Awards, including five that also won Top Ten Green (COTE) Awards.