Cambridge Seven Associates

Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. is an American architecture firm founded in 1962 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm was founded upon the idea that the collaborative efforts of a varied group of designers and architects would be far more effective than those of any one individual. In writing about the firm, the architecture critic Robert Campbell stated, "From the start, the Seven set out to combine architecture with the other design arts - with exhibits, with graphics, and signage, with public art, with product design, with film, even with city planning. Most of their work is a collaboration among many disciplines..." fact|date=April 2008 The practice won the American Institute of Architects Architecture Firm Award in 1993, and was described by the AIA Committee on Design as "an influential and stimulating example, demonstrating new directions of professional practice." (Jack, 1993)

Cambridge Seven Associates have undertaken work in architecture, urban design, planning, exhibitions, graphic, and interior design. The firm has executed a diverse range of building types including academic, museum, exhibit, hospitality, transportation, retail, office, and aquarium facilities. The firm has practiced throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East, annually completing work totaling over US$500 million in construction costs.fact|date=March 2008

Some of the firms more notable projects are:
* New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts, the firm's first major commission
* Rice University Bioscience/Bioengineering Lab, Houston, Texas
* National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland
* US Pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal, Quebec Canada
* Museum of Railroad Technology, Sacramento, California
* San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
* Kanbar Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
* Boston Children's Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
* TD Waterhouse Centre, Orlando, Florida
* Kuwait National Petroleum Company Headquarters, Ahmadi, Kuwait
* Weston Center, San Antonio, Texas
* Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority stations, Boston, Massachusetts
**Ashmont Station
**Fields Corner Station
**Forest Hills Station
**Porter Square Station
**Shawmut Station
* Liberty Hotel, Boston

References

*citation|last=Jack|first=Michael|date=July/Aug 1993|year=1993|title=1993 Architecture Firm Award: Cambridge Seven Associates|periodical=Memo: The Review of People, Information, and Ideas|publisher=AIA|pages=8-9

External links

* [http://www.c7a.com/ Cambridge Seven Associates website]
* [http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2007/08/02/the_peoples_architect/ 'The People's Architect,' Boston Globe article on Peter Kuttner, President of C7A]
* [http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/03/19/boston_museum_seeks_new_site/ Boston Globe article on Boston Museum]
* [http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/New_England_Aquarium.html New England Aquarium on GreatBuildings.com]
* [http://www.aqua.org/index.html National Aquarium in Baltimore website]
* [http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/about/green_museum.html Boston Children's Museum's Green Design and LEED Gold Certification (LEED) ]
* [http://libertyhotel1-px.rtrk.com/ Liberty Hotel Boston]