Ann Beha

• Name — Ann Beha • Born — 26 June 1950 • Birthplace — New York, New York • Education — Wellesley College (1972); Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975) • Spouse — Robert A Radloff (1975-) • Significant Buildings — The New England Conservatory of Music, Student Life and Performance Center, and Jordan Hall renewal, The New Britain Museum of American Art, CT; the Center for Art and Education at Shelburne Museum, with Steven Gerrard AIA and Thomas Hotaling AIA. • Significant Projects — Cambridge Public Library, with Pamela Hawkes FAIA and William Rawn Associates; Liberty Hotel, with Pamela Hawkes FAIA and Cambridge Seven Associates.

Ann Macy Beha was born on June 26, 1950, in New York City. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1972 and earned a Master of Architecture Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975. While at MIT she founded a community service architectural organization, and following her graduation she was employed in MIT's architecture department and as a research associate. In 1987–88 she was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and in 2023 received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Beha began her career as a consultant in historic preservation, working with community groups on their historic but underutilized buildings. Her consultant practice expanded, and she founded an architectural firm in the early 1980s. Ann Beha Architects, now Annum Architects, is located in Boston and works nationally and internationally on buildings of historic significance and designs new buildings for cultural, academic, and civic clients. Her firm's projects include the Music Building at the University of Pennsylvania; the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut; the Carl A. Fields Center at Princeton University; the Portland Art Museum in Oregon; Saieh Hall for Economics at the University of Chicago; a new Student Life and Performance Center at the New England Conservatory of Music; the addition and expansion of Cornell Law School; and the Cambridge Public Library and Liberty Hotel, two projects undertaken in joint associations. She led the Humanities Quadrangle project at Yale University and continues as a Senior Collaborating Architect for projects with Annum. Ann Beha Architects was selected by the U.S. Department of State for the major rehabilitation of Walter Gropius' Chancery and the U.S. Embassy in Athens campus as part of its Excellence in Diplomatic Facilities program, for the US Embassy in Manila, Master Plan, and the US Embassy in PAris Master PLan, with Ann as Design Principal.