Lunch With Celine Larkin

Celine Larkin, AIA, LEED AP has 40 years of experience as an architect and an urban designer in the United States and worldwide.

November 17,  2026

We'll meet via Zoom. Bring your questions and a sandwich!

Her building and development projects span hospitality, retail, offices and housing to museums, libraries, educational and sports venues. Highlights include the Athletes' and Reporters' Village, Games of the XXIVth Olympiad, Seoul, Republic of Korea and planning for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Doha, Qatar.

Awards for her work include:

• First Cultural Design Award for Housing from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribal Housing
• Project to Watch Award from the Urban Land Institute for the Puerto Rico Convention Center District
• Merit Award from the Boston Society of Landscape Architects for the Comprehensive Campus Plan for Paul Smith’s, The College of the Adirondacks

Celine has written extensively for industry journals including Corporate Real Estate Journal and School Construction News, where she serves on the Editorial Board. She also serves on the Board of Directors, Amideast Qatar and with the Neuro Climate Working Group at Stanford University.

She has spoken at leading trade conferences for CoreNet, the Society for College and University Planning (SCUP), the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and the American Institute of Architecture (AIA).

Celine holds a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Environmental Studies cum laude from Harvard University and a Master of Architecture (Honors) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a Rotary Fellow at the University of Sydney, Australia.

She has been a registered architect in Massachusetts, and a LEED Accredited Professional, a member of the AIA, SCUP, Urban Land Institute (ULI) and the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network over the past 25 years.

Celine speaks English, French, Spanish and German.

CA79's Lunch With series allows us to learn more about a classmate we might know a little—or not at all.

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