Michael McKinnell

[1] McKinnell was born on December 25, 1935, in Salford area of Manchester, England,[3][4][5] His father was an accountant and war veteran.

[3][4] Kallmann and McKinnell entered a design competition for Boston City Hall in 1962, and won, beating 255 other submissions.

[3] McKinnell's architectural firm, Kallmann McKinnell & Wood, was originally known for its design of concrete buildings, but in the late 1970s began to focus on other materials, as in the firm's design of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

He served on the faculty of Harvard's Graduate School of Design for 25 years and as the Professor of the Practice of Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

McKinnell received the Royal Manchester Institution Silver Medal and was recognized by the Boston Society of Architects with its Award of Honor in 1994.