Michael McKinnell, 1935–2020

Architect and artist McKinnell gained national prominence in 1962 as the co-designer of Boston’s City Hall, a landmark example of brutalist architecture. He was a co-founder of the noted architectural design firm Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, and a tenured professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. McKinnell also designed the Hynes Convention Center, the modernization and expansion of the deCordova Museum, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.