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Laura Cella-Mowatt, RA

Associate

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Laura Cella-Mowatt is an Associate and Vice President of Business Development at Davis Square Architects. She has been with the firm since 2006 and has professional architectural experience working as a designer, clerk-of-the-works, job captain, and project architect. A leader at the firm, she works on a range of project types including adaptive reuse, historic renovation, and new construction. Laura excels at problem solving and welcomes the challenges associated with the fast-paced nature of construction administration.

Laura is currently working with OppCo and Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation on the design of Dudley Crossing, an exciting new transit-oriented, mixed-use project featuring both new construction and historic renovation. The new building will be Passive House certified, bringing 24 affordable units and retail space to Roxbury’s Nubian Square neighborhood. She also worked with Lena New Boston on the recently completed affordable family apartments at Olmsted Green in Mattapan. Her past projects include rehabilitating 146 units of housing in 25 buildings scattered throughout Boston’s Historic South End with The Community Builders, and working with Roxbury Tenants of Harvard on the renovation of their Longwood properties. Additional projects include the adaptive reuse of an historic mill building in Leominster, MA with NewVue Communities; with Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) on an occupied rehab of senior apartments in Orleans, MA; and with Bridge Over Troubled Waters on the renovation of a shelter for teenage runaways and young mothers.

Outside of the office, Laura has worked as a studio instructor at the Boston Architectural College and served as a design mentor for the FHLB Greater Boston Affordable Housing Development Competition.

Education

Virginia Tech, Bachelor of Architecture, summa cum laude