Larry's Projects Experience

Larry rejoins the Artec team as he celebrates 40 continuous years in architectural acoustics consulting. His extensive and diverse experience ranges from the 1976 renovation of Yankee Stadium in New York City and Esplanade – Theatres on the Bay, Singapore’s $350 million performing arts center completed in 2002, to the renovations of Alice Tully Hall and the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center completed in 2009.

Larry’s background spans the entire range of Artec’s work – starting from the pre-design process and the development of initial design concepts through design, construction and post-opening services. Larry has collaborated with many of the world’s renowned architects, including Philip Johnson, Moshe Safdie, Kevin Roche, Charles Young, Leigh Breslau, Gilles Saucier, Eberhard Zeidler and Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

Larry’s love of music and opera has also given him particular sensitivity to the needs of the artists in the design, operation and setting of adjustable acoustics systems. In this capacity he has worked with some of the world’s best known soloists and symphony orchestra conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Gerre Hancock, John Scott, Richard Goode, Radu Lupu, Jessye Norman, David Robertson, Paavo Järvi, Philippe Herrweghe, Placido Domingo, Jesus Lopez-Cobos, Zdeněk Mácal, Zubin Mehta, Loren Maazel, Lan Shui, Leonard Slatkin, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Christian Zacharias, David Zinman, and Andre Previn.

In the course of his work, Larry has conducted acoustic measurements during project design as well as in completed facilities, and has lectured and written on acoustics for performing arts spaces and houses of worship. Mentoring the development of younger colleagues is a favorite and challenging sidebar occupation.

Larry’s career in Architectural Acoustics began at Bolt, Beranek & Newman in 1968 and from this role he went on to become Principal Consultant and Co founder of Klepper Marshall King Associates Ltd. Larry was previously at Artec from 1995 to 2005 and has also held positions at Jaffe Holden Acoustics and as an independent consultant.

Larry holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and he was also a Candidate for a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering at the University of Rochester.