Cambridge Seven Associates

Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. (C7A) 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..."[1] 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."[2]

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 Asia, annually completing work totaling over US$500 million in construction costs.

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Notable projects

Museums and aquariums

Exhibits

Academic buildings

Office buildings

Transportation

Hospitality

Institutional buildings

Notes

  1. ^ Beaver, Robyn (December 2006). Contemporary Architecture, Vol. 1. Images Publishing Dist A/C. p. 242. 
  2. ^ Jack, Michael (July/August 1993). "1993 Architecture Firm Award: Cambridge Seven Associates". Memo: the Review of People, Information, and Ideas (AIA): pp. 8–9. 
  3. ^ "New England Aquarium". greatbuildings.com. GreatBuildings.com. http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/New_England_Aquarium.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  4. ^ "Being Green". bostonchildrensmuseum.org. Boston Children's Museum. http://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/about/green_museum.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  5. ^ "Who was the architect for the main Aquarium building?". aqua.org. National Aquarium. http://www.aqua.org/faq_faq_architect.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  6. ^ "The Boston Museum, Boston, Massachusetts". c7a.com. Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc.. http://www.c7a.com/Portfolio/museums/the_boston_museum.asp?pos=0#. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  7. ^ Palmer, Thomas C., Jr. (19 March 2008). "Boston Museum seeks new site". boston.com. Boston Globe. http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/03/19/boston_museum_seeks_new_site. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  8. ^ "Boston Museum Bids onNew Downtown Site". bostonmuseum.org. The Boston Museum. http://www.bostonmuseum.org/. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  9. ^ "Commonwealth Museum". sec.state.ma.us. State of Massachusetts. http://www.sec.state.ma.us/mus/museum/index.htm. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  10. ^ "The Liberty Hotel, Boston, MA". c7a.com. Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc.. http://www.c7a.com/Portfolio/hospitality/charles_street_hotel.asp?pos=0. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 
  11. ^ "The Hotel: History". libertyhotel.com. Liberty Hotel. http://www.libertyhotel.com/the_hotel/history.html. Retrieved 19 February 2011. 

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