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Practice

Established in 1962, KMW Architecture is a fully integrated architectural design firm with a rich history of providing clients with reliable, specialized expertise across a range of sectors. KMW is internationally recognized for excellence in design and project management, extending over fifty years of practice.

KMW has developed a diverse portfolio of work focused on educational, civic, institutional and cultural buildings, both public and private, around the globe. Our projects encompass a wide range of scales and program types, from small museums to government embassies to an entire teacher’s college .

We believe that our clients are best served by a design process that relies on a continuing and responsive dialogue throughout the course of a project and a continuity of participation by the design team throughout the construction process.

Services

Architectural Design

Interior Design

Feasibility Studies

Landscape Architecture

Master Planning

Programming

Sustainable Design

Urban Design + Planning

 
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History

The history of KMW began in 1962 when the City of Boston selected the design by Kallmann McKinnell and Knowles for the new Boston City Hall in a nation-wide competition. The building received instant national and international recognition and remains an iconic landmark to this day.

KMW’s projects, past and present, reflect an approach to design developed through a career-long collaboration of Gerhard Kallmann and Michael MckKinnell with the principals of the firm. Both were influential professors of Architecture for over two decades at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Over the past 30 years the practice was joined by a group of professionals who shared their outlook and commitment to a demanding set of design standards, and together they created the firm portfolio as it exists today, expanding the range of projects and breadth of architectural language.

The firm is now a second-generation practice following the focus and methods established over many years and continues to work in the same practice areas as a design studio based firm. The firm is led by Bruce Wood, FAIA, ASLA, LEED AP.