Peter Kuttner, FAIA, is the AIA Regional Director, New England, and president of Cambridge Seven Associates, a Boston-based firm whose work includes museums, education, transportation, and hospitality design around the world. C7A provides planning, graphic, and exhibit design, as well as full architecture services, and received the 1993 AIA Architecture Firm Award. Peter specializes in informal and formal learning in museums and college facilities, with a particular focus on interactive and participatory experiences in the sciences.

In the past few years Peter has completed Wonders of Wildlife in Missouri, the Scientific Center Science Museum/Aquarium in Kuwait, and recently, Boston's first LEED Gold museum, the Boston Children's Museum. He is now working on master plan for the Museum of Science in Boston, expansion for the New England Aquarium, Discovery Place in Charlotte, and numerous exhibition projects around the country. He is Principal-in-Charge for the Boston Museum, a major new history museum on the new "Greenway."

Peter has been active in the AIA since 1981, and serves on the Secretary's Advisory Committee in addition to his Board work. In line with his passion for design, he has been working on the Design Competition Guidelines with COD. He has participated on numerous design juries, and this past year served on AIA North Carolina and AIA Connecticut award juries and chaired the 2008 AIA Institute Honor Awards for Architecture.

Throughout his involvement he has been committed to AIA communication, and served on the National Advertising Task Force. In 1999 he received the national AIA Award for Component Excellence for Individual Achievement for establishing the first Chapter web site, expanding Boston's ChapterLetter, and founding ArchitectureBoston. As part of his active communication involvement in Boston, Peter was on several committees before serving as Commissioner of Chapter Affairs, Commissioner of Public Affairs, Vice-President, and President in 1998.

Peter is committed to emerging professionals. He co-chairs the NCARB IDP Advisory Committee and is AIA Board liaison to the Young Architect's Forum. As a University of Michigan graduate, he was a member of AIA/SC, the student organization of its time, an AIA Scholar, and later served on the U. of M. Board of Governors and the Alumni Board. He is now on the Boston Architectural College's Board of Overseers. He also serves as chair of the Boston Foundation for Architecture, which funds teachers and organizations who promote K-12 urban design and environmental awareness for our youngest emerging professionals.