[3] This coveted prize entitled the recipient to three years of resident study at the Academy in Rome and included a stipend to cover expenses.

However, the prevailing architectural design philosophy of this firm gave Kennedy no opportunity to express his creative and artistic talents.

While associated with Meyer & Holler, Kennedy was able to leave his mark on the architectural landscape of early modern Los Angeles.

The decline in real estate values and dramatically lowered demand for construction in general brought to an end the operations of Meyer & Holler.

Kennedy, along with fellow architect Donald Wilkinson, arranged the forecourt and facade of the Chinese theater to echo the layout of the Piazza San Pietro and the massing of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in Rome, respectively.

He thus managed to subtly associate the function of the movie theater with that of sacred space, thereby helping to legitimize the cinema at a time when its morality was being questioned.

was interrupted during September and October 1941 when he left to be a Consulting Architect on the design of the future Pentagon in Washington, D.C. At the completion of his employment at the University of Southern California in 1942, Kennedy again became active in strictly architectural work.

During his retirement years Kennedy enthusiastically pursued his many hobbies of model railroads, woodworking, travel, photography, painting and writing.