Ann M. Beha

Founder of Ann Beha Architects (now annum architects), Ann’s work is best known for championing preservation and adaptive use in dialogue with contemporary design. She welcomes a broad community to reconsider historic and modernist resource and the role and future of civic, cultural, academic, and community settings. Ann is senior collaborating architect with annum architects, and works independently and with emerging practices. In Boston, she is Senior Design Consultant for the Boston Public Library’s McKim building renewal, and for Boston Symphony Hall.

Ann has led and delivered projects at MIT, Harvard, US Embassies in Paris and Athens, and national civic, arts, and educational institutions. At Yale, Ann led the Humanities Quadrangle project, receiving Honor Awards from the Society of College and University Planning, and AIA Boston and Connecticut. She has taught at Yale and City College of New York.

Awards include the Women in Design Award of Excellence, the Boston Society of Architects Honor Award, and the Award of Honor from the US Department of State’s Overseas Building Operations. Her Master of Architecture degree is from MIT and her BA from Wellesley College, where she has been collaborating on the renewal of Paul Rudolph’s first academic building, the Jewett Arts Center. Ann was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, received Honorary Doctorates from Wheaton College and Colby College and serves on Harvard’s Campus Design Advisory Council and the Boston Architectural Foundation.