Gerhard Kallmann

Gerhard Michael Kallmann (February 13, 1915 – June 19, 2012) was a German-born American architect and academic.

[1] He began teaching at the Chicago Institute of Design less than one year after arriving in the U.S.[1] Kallman became an assistant professor of architecture at Columbia University in 1954. In the early 1960s, Boston Mayor proposed a new city hall as part of plan to revitalize a declining section of the city's downtown.

[1] Influences for city hall, a large concrete structure, included the Le Corbusier’s monastery at La Tourette, France.

[1] While called a "hall of shame" by the urban planning nonprofit, Project for Public Spaces, a 1976 survey of architects named it one of the top ten buildings in the United States.

However, he also designed the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague and the Embassy of the United States in Bangkok, Thailand.