Kent Larson (architect)
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Kent Larson is Director of the House_n Research Consortium and the Open Source Building Alliance in the Department of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [1] He also runs the Changing Places research group at the MIT Media Lab. Current research focuses on strategies for creating responsive places of living through mass-customization strategies and ubiquitous technology.
Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City, with work published in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Global Architecture, the New York Times, A+U, and Architectural Digest. His book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture, 2000 by the New York Times Review of Books. [2]