BSA Award of Honor

Eligibility

Individual must be a BSA member, current or former, and have made "outstanding contributions to architecture and to the profession" over an extended period of time.

2025 Recipient

Peter Kuttner, FAIA

Peter Kuttner, FAIA, is the past President of CambridgeSeven, a studio of architects, planners, urban designers, exhibit designers, and graphic artists. The firm, which received the AIA Architecture Firm Award, is known for its work with museums, aquariums, visitors’ centers, hotels, academic buildings, and transportation systems. Peter is recognized for his thoughtful design of buildings and exhibits in museums, nature centers, and aquariums.

Peter’s early work for academic projects at Brown, Bowdoin, MIT, Northeastern, Harvard Law, Harvard Business, UMass Amherst, and Carleton College opened a focus on the impact of spaces for informal learning. This evolved to projects over the past two decades with Boston’s premiere family hands-on learning museums. He has led local planning, renovation, and expansion work for the Boston Children’s Museum, the Museum of Science, Boston, the New England Aquarium, Franklin Park Zoo, the Acton Discovery Museum, and the USS Constitution Museum.

Peter’s museum experience has grown nationally with Aquarium projects in Baltimore MD, Sarasota FL, Charleston SC, Fort Fisher NC, Norwalk CT, Richmond VA, and Naples FL, Science Centers in Charlotte NC, Fort Lauderdale FL, Flint MI, and Tampa FL, as well as Children’s Museums in Brooklyn NY, Baltimore MD, Baton Rouge LA, and Little Rock AR. His museum impact has extended internationally, including introducing the first Children’s Museums in Kuwait, Korea, and China.

An honors graduate of the University of Michigan, Peter is a past member of the UofM Architecture Governors Board, the UofM Alumni Board, and was honored as a Distinguished Alumni. He is also a past Board Member and Overseer Emeritus of the Boston Architectural College.

Peter has been an active AIA member since student days and was the 1998 BSA President. With a focus on communication as President-elect his task force established the BSA’s Web site, secured the URL “architects.org,” and created “ArchitectureBoston,” the chapter’s highly regarded magazine. He went on to represent New England on the national AIA Board and then served 2 years as Vice President of the AIA. He was elevated to Fellow in 2000 and became the Chancellor of the College of Fellows in 2020. He currently serves on the BSA Foundation Board and is the Chair of the BSA Fellows Committee.

He lives in Rockport MA where he is an elected member of the Planning Board. He also serves on the Town’s Community Preservation Committee and the Affordable Housing Strategic Plan task force.