Gerhard Kallmann

Michael Gerhard Kallmann ( born February 13, 1915 in Berlin, † June 19, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American architect.

Life

Michael Gerhard Kallmann was the son of Theodore and Olga Jarecki Kallmann. The family emigrated in 1937 to Britain, where he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. 1948 the family emigrated to the United States, where Kallmann from 1949 taught at the Chicago Institute of Design. From 1954 he was assistant professor at Columbia University. In the early 1960s had long since Kallmann professor and was able to prevail with his former student Michael McKinnell at a public tender for the design of the new Boston City Hall against well-known architects. The building was built in 1968. Shortly after winning it in 1962 moved to Boston, where he founded his architectural firm Kallmann, McKinnell & Knowles.

Later his office in Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood has been renamed. He designed complete campuses for the University of California, scattered buildings of the Ohio State University and Brandeis University. The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons in The Hague was built just after his draft as the U.S. Embassy in Bangkok.

Designed building

Headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, The Hague