Peter Larson is an architect in the broadest definition: he is seeking to understand the world in holistic, often philosophical ways. He explores sustainability as a vehicle to address larger questions regarding our individual and collective relationships to our world.
Peter’s passion lies in the creation of solutions that do not answer to today’s current mantra of sustainability, which is: “get by with less.” Peter has bigger ideas. Those ideas exist within the tenets of Blue Design. Through Blue Design, Peter envisions a new way to look at our relationship with natural resources, the impact of our built world and a vision for the future that is not only sustainable, but is also optimistic, creative, beautiful and prosperous.
Peter Larson, AIA, LEED AP, is a graduate of the Syracuse University School of Architecture and has worked at Ashley McGraw Architects, located in Syracuse, since 1993. He is a principal of the firm and creator and leader of its Advanced Building Studio, which is working to create an architecture that unites form and resource performance with zero environmental impact.
Peter speaks nationally on Blue Design, the Advanced Building Studio and building a brighter future. He resides with his wife, Hilarie and three children on a farm in Lansing that has been in his family for seven generations, in a nineteenth century farmhouse renovated to perform as a near-net zero fossil fuel building.