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Kent Larson is principal research scientist at MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. He is director of the Changing Places research group and the MIT Open Source Building Alliance. Larson has practiced architecture since 1981: in partnership with Peter L. Gluck from 1981 to 1995 in New York City, and as Kent Larson Architects, PC from 1995 to present. Architectural Digest selected his firm as one of the 100 architects for residential design, and his designs have won numerous awards, including the AIA Award for the design of the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. His study of the unbuilt work of Louis I. Kahn was selected by Time magazine as a "Best Design of the Year" (1993), and the related book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks was selected as one of the Ten Best Books in Architecture, 2000, by the New York Times Review of Books. It was the focus of the "Design for the Spirit" exhibit at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. His MIT research project, "The Unbuilt," which created hyper-realistic simulations of the 20th century's visionary architecture, was included in "The End of the Century," which opened in Tokyo in 1998 and traveled to South America, Europe and the United States through 2001.
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