Lara Davis

Lara Davis is an architect and mason with two decades of experience in 
masonry design and construction and a specialist in earthen building and thin-shell vaulting. She is the founding partner of Limaçon Design and
previously served as co-director of the Auroville Earth Institute
(India) and as a representative for the UNESCO Chair of Earthen Architecture.
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.

Lara has been recognized for her research at 
the MIT Masonry Research Group, the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (Stuttgart), the BLOCK Research Group (Zürich) and
the Future Cities Laboratory (Singapore). She has taught structural
theory of masonry and led hands-on training programs on several
 continents. Notable professional projects include the Sharanam Center for Rural Development in Pondicherry, India; the Kaza Eco-Community
Center in Spiti Valley, India; and the Martin Puryear sculpture Lookout at Storm King Art Center. Her work has been exhibited at the Modern
Museum of Art, MIT Museum, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and
Venice Biennale.