Peter Kuttner

Peter Kuttner is Principal Architect at Cambridge Seven Associates, a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based firm of architects, planners, exhibit designers, and graphic artists whose international portfolio includes museums, education, transportation, and hospitality design. The firm received the American Institute of Architects’ 1993 Architecture Firm Award. Peter is known, in particular, for his thoughtful design of spaces for informal and formal learning in aquariums, museums, and college facilities, with a particular focus on interactive and participatory experiences in the sciences. In the past few years Peter has completed the Boston Children’s Museum, Boston’s first LEED Gold museum, The Scientific Center children’s science museum in Kuwait, and the renovation of Discovery Place in Charlotte, North Carolina. Just this past year he has finished the pier expansion for the New England Aquarium, opened the Museum of Discovery & Science expansion in Fort Lauderdale, and premiered the Gyeonggi Children’s Museum in Seoul, Korea. Locally he is now working on the Giant Ocean Tank renovation at the New England Aquarium, the proposed Boston Museum on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, renovation of the Boston Museum of Science, and the new Gateway Project for the Franklin Park Zoo. Internationally, he is Principal-in-Charge on the new Geo-Science Centre, a major new science museum, and the National Aquarium, both in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Peter was a past president of the Boston Society of Architects, a Vice-President of the American Institute of Architects, and is presently on the Boston Architectural College’s Board of Overseers and serves on the Boston Foundation for Architecture.