Engine 17 breaks ground!

Philip Chen FAIA, with Ann Beha FAIA, Thomas Hotaling AIA, and Steven Gerrard AIA, are pleased to introduce Annum Architects, building on Ann Beha Architects’ accomplishments and a new generation of leadership.

Philip Chen FAIA, firm President, noted: “Annum Architects continues ABA’s remarkable legacy and points toward the future. Our transformative work explores the dialogue between historic and contemporary architecture and is rooted, like our new name, in the idea of time.”

Annum continues a tradition of collective leadership and bridging the past with the future to create timeless new settings that serve and strengthen our clients’ missions.

Nationally and internationally recognized for work in adaptive use and contemporary design in historic and valued settings, Annum will continue to advance innovative planning and design for academic, cultural, and civic organizations.

Annum’s expanded leadership includes Jason Bowers AIA, Katie Gerner AIA, and Ed Rice AIA as Associate Principals; Josh Aisenberg AIA and Bob Carroll AIA joining Elizabeth Nassikas and Ric Panciera AIA as Senior Associates; and Ashley Merchant AIA and Melissa Murphy AIA joining Jackie Flanigan AIA as Associates.

Ann Beha FAIA will be affiliated with Annum as Senior Collaborating Architect, and in 2023 will be Distinguished Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University.

 “I am thrilled with Annum’s name, mission, and leadership. These reflect a practice marked by innovation and opportunity.” – Ann Beha FAIA

A minority-owned firm, Annum is committed to inclusion, sustainability, mentoring young designers, and welcoming new voices.

Designed by ABA/Annum, the new Welcome Center at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michael’s, MD is featured in the “Design with Jenn Martella” series in the local Talbot Spy.

The 11,500 SF new building is the next step in the implementation of the 18-acre museum’s Master Plan, also by ABA/Annum. Read more in Design with Jenn Martella: The New Welcome Center at CBMM.

Ann Beha Architects, now Annum Architects, celebrated the groundbreaking of the 107,000 SF new Dyson Center at Marist College, a reimagined home for the College’s School of Management and School of Social and Behavioral Sciences in Poughkeepsie, NY that will serve as a campus centerpiece.

Marist College President Kevin Weinman said at the event, “The new Dyson Center will be an inspiring place for teaching, learning, research, and collaboration. With its beautiful design, central location, and ample public space for socializing, group study, and individual work and reflection, students of all disciplines will benefit from this truly transformative facility. My sincerest thanks to Rob Dyson and everyone at the Dyson Foundation, Ann Beha, Marist’s Board of Trustees, and President Emeritus Dennis Murray for their work over many years to bring this vision to life.”

Photo by Carlo de Jesus / Marist College