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Lawrence Chan, Gerhard Michael Kallmann, Noel Michael McKinnell, Bruce A. Wood, Henry Austin Wood III

Active 1962-

This Boston-based architectural firm fomed as "Kallman, McKinnell and Knowles, Architects" in 1962. As noted on its website in 2022: "The firm began in 1962 when the City of Boston selected the design of the new City Hall by Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles in a nation-wide competition. The building received instant national and international recognition and remains controversial to this day. The firm developed a portfolio focused on education, Institutions, government agencies and both public and private clients and has designed buildings across the country and overseas. These projects encompass a wide range of scales and program types from small museums to an entire teacher’s college. The firm is now a second-generation practice following the focus and methods established over many years and continues to work in the same practice areas as a design studio based firm." (See Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood.com. "Practice," accessed 11/01/2022.) The Boston City Hall design vaulted the firm into wide attention, as its competition attracted 286 other architectural firms, and for the radical Brutalist solution that they presented.

Original partners were Gerhard M. Kallmann, Noel Michael McKinnell and Edward F. Knowles. Knowles did not last as a name partner. Kallmann and McKinnell worked together on various projects for most of the 1970s, although, in 1973, the firm had a third partner, "Kallmann, McKinnell and Craig," for at least one commission.

In about 1980, the firm became known as "Kallmann, McKinnell and Wood", when Henry Austin Wood III (d. 01/27/2017 in Boston, MA) was made partner. The firm's name has remained the same since that time.

In 2022, the firm was led by Bruce Wood and Lawrence Chan.

PCAD id: 6695