Annie Barrett

Annie Barrett is a founding principal of Aanda Architects, an award-winning, women-owned architecture, design, and planning practice based in Brooklyn, NY and Philadelphia, PA. Beyond her role at Aanda, teaching is an essential extension of Annie’s practice, and she is a member of the senior faculty at the Yale School of Architecture where she coordinates and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses. Annie is also a parent to two children, lives in Brooklyn, and is licensed in New York and Pennsylvania.

Aanda partners with mission-driven organizations, institutions, and communities to shape spaces that align culture, purpose, and place. Their architecture is transformational not through spectacle but through careful stewardship of resources—balancing ambition with pragmatism to amplify impact. They work across scales, from the 62-branch Brooklyn Public Library to the 20,000-square-foot Brown RISD Hillel Student Center to the intimate Olin College Library reading room. They approach each project as a unique collaboration with their clients, and pride themselves on their hands-on, engaged project stewardship, from concept through implementation. Aanda has been recognized with the 2025 AIA New York New Practices Award, the 2025 Architect’s Newspaper Best in Practice award for Best New Firm, the 2025 Philadelphia Emerging Architects award, and a 2024 AIANYS design award for our work with the Brooklyn Public Library. Their work has been published in The New York Times, Architectural Record, Wallpaper, Dwell, and The New Yorker.