Lara Davis

Lara Davis is the founding partner of Limaçon Design and a master-builder with three decades of experience in masonry design, structural design, and construction. Specializing in earthen building, large-span vaults, and shells, she is an architect by professional training, with work that has crossed over the cultures of landscape, structural engineering, heritage preservation, historic/vernacular materials research, and building craftsmanship. She is a member of APT International, APT Northeast, CRAterre (the International Center for Earthen Architecture in Grenoble, France), ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Earthen Architectural Heritage, and the Board of Directors at Opus 40 Sculpture Park & Museum. She holds a BFA from the New York State College of Ceramics, School of Art & Design at Alfred University and an MArch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught at the ETH Zürich and the Auroville Earth Institute/UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture in South India, and she has led hands-on training programs on four continents. Notable professional projects include the Martin Puryear sculpture Lookout at Storm King Art Center, the Sharanam Conference Hall in South India, and the Kaza Eco-Community Center in Spiti Valley, India. She has exhibited work at the MoMA, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Venice Biennale, and MIT Museum.