Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. (stylized as CambridgeSeven, and sometimes as C7A) is an American

architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

firm based in

Cambridge, Massachusetts Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, ...

. Buildings designed by the firm have included academic, museum, exhibit, hospitality, transportation, retail, office, and aquarium facilities, and have been built in North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Besides architecture, it operates in the areas of

urban design Urban design is an approach to the design of buildings and the spaces between them that focuses on specific design processes and outcomes. In addition to designing and shaping the physical features of towns, cities, and regional spaces, urban de ...

planning Planning is the process of thinking regarding the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. The evolution of forethought, the capacity to think ahead, is consi ...

exhibitions An exhibition, in the most general sense, is an organized presentation and display of a selection of items. In practice, exhibitions usually occur within a cultural or educational setting such as a museum, art gallery, park, library, exhibition ...

graphic Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, ...

, and

interior design Interior design is the art and science of enhancing the interior of a building to achieve a healthier and more aesthetically pleasing environment for the people using the space. An interior designer is someone who plans, researches, coordin ...

. The company was founded in 1962. The original seven partners were Lou Bakanowsky,

Ivan Chermayeff Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv (formerly Brownjohn, Chermayeff & Geismar and Chermayeff & Geismar) is a New York-based branding and graphic design firm. It is currently led by partners Tom Geismar and Sagi Haviv. About It was founded in 1957 ...

, Peter Chermayeff, Alden Christie, Paul Dietrich, Tom Geismar, and Terry Rankine. CambridgeSeven won the American Institute of Architects

Architecture Firm Award The Architecture Firm Award is the highest honor that The American Institute of Architects can bestow on an architecture firm for consistently producing distinguished architecture. Prior recipients of the AIA Architecture Firm Award include: *202 ...

in 1993, and was described by the AIA Committee on Design as "an influential and stimulating example, demonstrating new directions of professional practice." In 2016, the company's revenue was $26 million.

Notable projects

Academic

* College of Business,

Kuwait University Kuwait University ( ar, جامعة الكويت, abbreviated as Kuniv) is a public university located in Kuwait City, Kuwait. History Kuwait University (KU), (in Arabic: جامعة الكويت), was established in October 1966 under Act N. 29 ...

, Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait * College of Engineering and Petroleum,

, Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait * College for Life Sciences,

, Sabah Al-Salem University City, Kuwait * Edwards Center for Art and Dance, Bowdoin College,

Brunswick, Maine Brunswick is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States. The population was 21,756 at the 2020 United States Census. Part of the Portland-South Portland-Biddeford metropolitan area, Brunswick is home to Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin Inte ...

* Health and Social Sciences Building,

University of Massachusetts Lowell The University of Massachusetts Lowell (UMass Lowell and UML) is a public research university in Lowell, Massachusetts, with a satellite campus in Haverhill, Massachusetts. It is the northernmost member of the University of Massachusetts publi ...

Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell () is a city in Massachusetts, in the United States. Alongside Cambridge, It is one of two traditional seats of Middlesex County. With an estimated population of 115,554 in 2020, it was the fifth most populous city in Massachusetts as of ...

* Kanbar Hall, Bowdoin College,

* Learning Laboratory for Complex Systems,

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

* Marine Technology & Life Sciences Seawater Research Complex,

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science The Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (RSMAS ) is the University of Miami's academic and research institution for the study of oceanography and atmospheric sciences. Founded in 1943, the University of Miami's Rosenstiel Schoo ...

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, incl ...

Miami, Florida Miami ( ), officially the City of Miami, known as "the 305", "The Magic City", and "Gateway to the Americas", is a coastal metropolis and the county seat of Miami-Dade County in South Florida, United States. With a population of 442,241 at th ...

* Marine Science Center at Fintas,

, Fintas, Kuwait * Nettie M. Stevens Science and Innovation Center,

Westfield State University Westfield State University (Westfield State) is a public university in Westfield, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1839 by Horace Mann as the first public co-educational college in America without barrier to race, gender, or economic class. Ra ...

Westfield, Massachusetts Westfield is a city in Hampden County, in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts, United States. Westfield was first settled by Europeans in 1660. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population wa ...

* Peter Buck Center for Health and Fitness, Bowdoin College,

* Pulichino Tong Business Center,

* Roux Center for the Environment, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine * Williams College Bookstore, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Aquariums

* MOTE Aquarium, Sarasota, Florida * National Aquarium,

Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was ...

* National Aquarium of Saudi Arabia, King Abdullah Financial District, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia * New England Giant Ocean Tank, New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts *

New England Aquarium The New England Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Boston, Massachusetts. The species exhibited include harbor and northern fur seals, California sea lions, African and southern rockhopper penguins, giant Pacific octopuses, weedy s ...

, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, the firm's first major commission * North Carolina Aquarium at Roanoke Island, Manteo, North Carolina * Oceanário de Lisbon,

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administrative limits w ...

, Portugal * Ring of Fire Aquarium, Osaka, Japan * Roundhouse Aquarium, Manhattan Beach, California * Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee * The Scientific Center of Kuwait,

Salmiya Salmiya (Arabic السالمية; transliterated As-Sālmīya(h)) is a city in Hawalli Governorate in Kuwait. Salmiya is administratively divided into 12 blocks. The blocks located closer to the interior of the district tend to be mostly res ...

, Kuwait * Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center, Virginia Beach, Virginia * World Alive Exhibits, Discovery Place Science, Charlotte, North Carolina

Civic

* Elevated Walkways, Logan International Airport, Boston, Massachusetts * Gloucester Harborwalk, Gloucester, Massachusetts * Howard Ulfelder, Maryland, Healing Garden, Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care,

Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is the original and largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It is the third oldest general hospital in the United Stat ...

, Boston, Massachusetts * Kuwait Ministry of Education Headquarters Building, South Surra District, Kuwait *

Kuwait National Petroleum Company The Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) ( ar, شركة البترول الوطنية الكويتية) is the national oil refining company of Kuwait. Established in October 1960, KNPC handles the responsibility of oil refining, gas liquefac ...

Headquarters, Ahmadi, Kuwait * MBTA Design Guidelines, Boston, Massachusetts * WBUR CitySpace, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts * West Cambridge Youth Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts * Yawkey Center for Outpatient Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Hospitality

* Ames Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts * Brookline Hilton Garden Inn, Brookline, Massachusetts * Charles Hotel, Cambridge, Massachusetts * Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences One Dalton Street (with collaborating architects Pei Cobb Freed & Partners), Boston, Massachusetts * Four Seasons Hotel & Private Residences New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana * Hanover Inn at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire * Hilton Boston Logan Airport, Boston, Massachusetts * PINE Restaurant at the Hanover Inn, Hanover, New Hampshire * Revere Hotel Renovations, Boston, Massachusetts * The Liberty Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts * Williams Inn, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Museums

* Boston Children's Museum, Boston, Massachusetts * Canada Sports Hall of Fame, Calgary, Alberta, Canada * Detroit Red Wings & Pistons Heritage Exhibit, Detroit, Michigan * Discovery Museum of Acton, Acton, Massachusetts * Children's Discovery Museum, Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China * KAFD Science Museum & Geo-Climate Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia * Knock Knock Children's Museum,

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge ( ; ) is a city in and the capital of the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish seat of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana's most populous parish—the equivalent of counties ...

* Murphy Keller Education Center, Heifer International Headquarters, Little Rock, Arkansas * Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield, Massachusetts * San Francisco 49ers Museum & Exhibits, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California * The Hall at Patriot Place, Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts * World of Little League Museum Renovation and Exhibits,

Williamsport, Pennsylvania Williamsport is a city in, and the county seat of, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. It recorded a population of 27,754 at the 2020 Census. It is the principal city of the Williamsport Metropolitan Statistical Area, which has a popula ...

Notes

References

'Cambridge Seven Names Johnson President,' High Profile.com Article on New President of Cambridge Seven, January 2017'The People's Architect,' Boston Globe article on Peter Kuttner, President of CambridgeSeven

External links

* {{Authority control Design companies established in 1962 Companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts Architecture firms based in Massachusetts 1962 establishments in Massachusetts