Michael McKinnell

Boston City Hall (Photo: 2010)

Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague (Photo: 2007)

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts (Photo: 2009)

Noel Michael McKinnell (born December 25, 1935 in Salford , Greater Manchester , England - † March 27, 2020 in Beverly , Massachusetts , United States ) was a British-American architect .

Life

McKinnell studied architecture at the University of Manchester and, on a Fulbright scholarship , from Columbia University in New York City . From 1960 he worked with his former professor Gerhard Kallmann . Both won a public tender for the design of the new Boston City Hall against well-known architects. The building was built in 1968. Shortly after winning, they moved to Boston in 1962, where they founded the architecture firm Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles . The office was later renamed Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood . They designed entire campuses for the University of California , individual buildings for Ohio State University and Brandeis University . The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague were built to their design, as was the US Embassy in Bangkok and the buildings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He was also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for over 25 years . McKinnell was a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Royal Institute of British Architects .

He died in March 2020 at the age of 84 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Beverly, Massachusetts of complications from a SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Web links

• Elias Baumgarten: "The designer of an icon: On the death of Michael McKinnell" , on swiss-architects.com from April 3, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall , April 4, 2020, New York Times
2. ↑ Bryan Marquard: "Architect Michael McKinnell, co-designer of Boston City Hall, dies at 84" , Boston Globe, March 28, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b} Gerhard Kallmann, Architect, Is Dead at 97 , June 24, 2012, New York Times
4. ↑ Tim Nelson: Michael McKinnell, Architect of Boston's City Hall, Dies from Coronavirus Complications. In: architecturaldigest.com. March 31, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .