Kevin A. Lynch
Kevin Andrew Lynch (* 1918 in Chicago , Illinois ; † 1984 in Martha's Vineyard , Massachusetts ) was an American urban planner, architect and author.
Life
Lynch studied at Yale University (1935-1937), with Frank Lloyd Wright in Taliesin (1937-1939) and at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1939-1940), and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). In 1947 he made his bachelor's degree in urban planning there.
He has worked at MIT since 1948, since 1949 as an assistant professor , since 1955 as an associate professor and since 1963 as a full professor of urban planning, where he supervised, among other things, Michael Southworth's work The Sonic Environment of Cities . In 1978 he retired and founded a company for town planning and design together with Stephen Carr. In 1979 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Lynch was an international thought leader in the field of urban design and planning. His best-known works include The Image of the City (1960) and Good City Form (1981).
influence
With The Image of the City , he and EC Tolman helped introduce cognitive maps in social geography with Cognitive Maps in Rats and Men .
Fonts
- Image of the City , 1960; German: The image of the city (translated by Henni Korssakoff-Schröder and Richard Michael). In: Bauwelt Fundamente Volume 16. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1968 ff (German first edition: Ullstein, Berlin / Frankfurt am Main / Vienna 1965), ISBN 978-3-7643-6360-4 (currently Birkhäuser, Basel).
- Site Planning , 1971
- What Time is This Place , 1972
- Managing the Sense of a Region , 1976
- Growing Up in Cities , 1977
- Good City Form , 1981
Web links
- Literature by and about Kevin A. Lynch in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography of Kevin A. Lynch (English)
- The visual order of the city. Kevin Lynch's picture of the city in H-Soz-Kult , September 14, 2006
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sabine von Fischer: The acoustic argument. Science and listening experience in 20th century architecture. gta Verlag, Zurich 2019, p. 15, 19, 319-329 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lynch, Kevin A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lynch, Kevin Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American urban planner, architect, and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |
| Place of death | Martha's Vineyard , Massachusetts |