Peter Kuttner FAIA is a Principal and former President of CambridgeSeven, a Cambridge-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. More recently, 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 Boston Museum of Science expansion, and the new Gateway Project for Boston’s Franklin Park Zoo. Nationally he is working on the US Marshals Museum in Arkansas, the Knock Knock Children’s Museum in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Blacktip Reef exhibit at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Internationally, he is Principal-in-Charge on the new Lao Niu Children’s Museum in Hohhot, China, and the new Geo-Science Centre, a major new science museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Peter is currently the Chancellor of the AIA College of Fellows Executive Committee. He is a former Vice-President of the American Institute of Architects, and was COF representative on the Boston Society for Architecture Board, where he was also a former President. He is presently on the Boston Architectural College’s Board of Overseers and serves on the BSA Foundation Board.