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Founder of Ann Beha Architects (now annum architects), Ann’s work champions preservation and adaptive use in dialogue with contemporary design. She welcomes all to reconsider historic and modernist resources and the future of civic, cultural, and academic settings. Ann is collaborating architect with annum, and works independently, and with emerging practices.
Ann’s work includes civic, cultural and educational institutions, US Embassies in Athens and Paris, the Boston Public Library, and Symphony Hall. At Yale, Ann led the Humanities Quadrangle project, and is 2026 Louis Kahn Professor of Design.
Ann received Honor Awards from the Boston Society of Architects and the US State Department Overseas Building Operations, and Honorary Doctorates from Wheaton and Colby Colleges. Her Master of Architecture degree is from MIT, and BA from Wellesley, where she is collaborating on renewal of Paul Rudolph’s Jewett Arts Center. A past GSD Loeb Fellow, Ann serves on Harvard’s Campus Design Advisory Council and on the Boston Architectural Foundation.
