Firm History
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Kallmann McKinnell & Wood Architects, Inc. (KMW) is a Boston-based firm offering comprehensive design services including feasibility studies, programming, master planning, architectural design, interior design and landscape architecture. KMW enjoys an outstanding international reputation for excellence in design and project management for the last forty years.

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 involving 286 architects. The building, received instant national and international recognition.

Firm Leadership
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All of KMW’s projects, past and present, reflect an approach to design developed through a career-long collaboration of Gerhard Kallmann and Michael McKinnell, with the Principals and Associates of the firm. In addition to their architectural practice, Kallmann and McKinnell were influential professors of Architecture for over two decades at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Over the last 21 years, Kallmann, McKinnell, and Wood have been joined in their practice by a group of professionals who share their outlook on architecture as well as their commitment to a demanding set of design standards. Together, they have created a notable diversity of projects for Government, Business, Education, and the Arts.

The firm believes that the client is best served by a design process that depends on the personal commitment of the Principals, Senior associates, and Associates, to a continuing and responsive dialogue with the client and their representatives throughout the course of a project. This group includes Principals Hans Huber, Bruno Pfister, Theodore Szostkowski, and Bruce A. Wood; Associate Principals Kathryn MacKenzie and Stephanie Mallis who are responsible for Project Design and Management.

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Design Process
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From concept, through development and into project completion, KMW is committed to a design approach which demands the full creative involvement of the architect and the client. The process is one of listening, asking, analyzing and engaging each client as a participant in design. The collaboration explores possible physical solutions suggested from a thorough understanding of the project’s needs and unique parameters of the site. The shared goal is to reveal the project’s singular nature and to discover through design an identity that is individual and memorable.

Our success in this approach is best measured by our clients whose opinions we encourage you to seek. Another measure is the recognition our work has received through numerous national and regional awards. Among them are 8 AIA Honor Awards, 3 AIA/Brick In Architecture Awards and 18 design awards from the Boston Society of Architects (BSA). In addition, KMW holds 6 Harleston Parker Medals awarded jointly by the BSA and The City of Boston for design of “the most beautiful building” in Boston’s metropolitan area. In 1984, KMW received the AIA Firm of the Year Award.
The citation notes “the firm’s capacity to produce work of human value and lasting significance".