Brenda Levin, FAIA, the renowned architect
who recently completed the renovation and
expansion of Griffith Observatory, has been
selected by the Autry National Center’s Board
of Trustees to be the design architect for the
expansion and modernization of the building.

Founder of Levin & Associates, Levin is known for both her historic preservation and adaptive reuse work and new educational and cultural buildings. Among the signature projects of Levin & Associates are the Bradbury and Oviatt buildings, Los Angeles City Hall, the Boone Gallery at the Huntington, the UC Santa Barbara Art Museum, and the National
Center for the Preservation of Democracy at the Japanese National Museum.

Walter Hood is professor and former chair of the Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Department at the University of California at Berkeley and principal of Hood Design in Oakland, California. Founded in 1999, the firm is well known for creating environments that are in harmony with the site’s physical location, cultural heritage, function, and the populations it serves. Hood has won numerous awards and accolades for his work. He received a proclamation by the Mayor of Oakland creating a “Walter Hood Day” on April 24, 2004, in recognition of his pioneering achievements in urban landscape design.

Hood’s design projects include the Baldwin Hills Park master plan, the rejuvenation of the once-blighted Lafayette Square Park in Oakland, and the gardens and landscape for the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in Golden Gate Park.