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Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc. 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..." (Beaver, 2006) 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." (Jack, 1993)

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 the Far East, annually completing work totaling over US$500 million in construction costs.^{[citation needed]}

Boston Children's Museum with 2007 addition

Some of the firm's more notable projects are:

New England Aquarium, Boston, Massachusetts, the firm's first major commission
Rice University Bioscience/Bioengineering Lab, Houston, Texas
Tennessee Aquarium, Chatanooga, Tennessee
National Aquarium, Baltimore, Maryland
US Pavilion at Expo 67, Montreal, Quebec Canada
Museum of Railroad Technology, Sacramento, California
San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Kanbar Hall, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Bowdoin Fitness Center, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine
Boston Children's Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
TD Waterhouse Centre, Orlando, Florida
Kuwait National Petroleum Company Headquarters, Ahmadi, Kuwait
Weston Center, San Antonio, Texas
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority stations, Boston, Massachusetts
- Ashmont Station
- Fields Corner Station
- Forest Hills Station
- Porter Square Station
- Shawmut Station
Miami-Dade Transit
- Government Center Station
Liberty Hotel, Boston
House of Blues, Boston, Massachusetts
Hard Rock Cafe, Boston, Massachusetts
Hard Rock Cafe, Las Vegas, Nevada
West Cambridge Youth Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Sushi-Teq, Boston, Massachusetts
CBS Scene Restaurant, Patriot Place, Foxborough, Massachusetts
Exhibits
- The Hall at Patriot Place, Foxborough, Massachusetts
- World Brooklyn Exhibit, Brooklyn Children's Museum
- Our Common Wealth, Massachusetts State Archives
- Heifer Education Center, Heifer International, Little Rock, Arkansas

[edit] References

Jack, Michael (July/August 1993), "1993 Architecture Firm Award: Cambridge Seven Associates", Memo: the Review of People, Information, and Ideas (AIA): 8–9
Beaver, Robyn (December 2006), Contemporary Architecture, Vol. 1, Images Publishing Dist A/C, p. 242

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