About

Anne Barakat (b. 1973, Nebraska) was raised in Iowa and educated in philosophy and architecture. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, and a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture) in Los Angeles. This foundation—at once intellectual, experimental, and deeply humanist—shapes the trajectory of her work.

For more than two decades, Barakat has moved fluidly between the worlds of brand experience, architecture, and interiors, working with award-winning firms as well as through her own practice. She has designed and led projects across a wide spectrum: culturally significant retail flagships, intimate hospitality destinations, immersive installations, private residences, and large-scale exhibitions. Whether creating a storefront, a headquarters or a temporary pavilion, she approaches every project with the conviction that human experience is the true measure of design. Every threshold, corner, and passage becomes part of a lived narrative, every detail a participant in the atmosphere of a space.

Barakat’s work has always extended beyond the professional sphere. As an artist, mother, mentor, and traveler, she has cultivated a practice inseparable from life itself. Her global travels, from Europe to the Mediterranean Asia to the Americas, have continually expanded her vocabulary of form, ritual, and material. Her role as a mother has deepened her work with resilience, care, and truth.

Known for her warmth, groundedness, and uncompromising eye, Barakat is recognized for crafting environments that resonate with presence and soul. Her work resists the superficial and instead insists on spaces that breathe, hold memory, and invite connection.

She currently resides in Los Angeles, continuing to create across scales and disciplines—anchored always by her belief that design, at its core, is an act of making life more fully felt.