McKinnell was a 26-year-old graduate student and a teaching assistant for architect Gerhard Kallmann when the city hall competition arose. Their "heroically sculptural and democratically open design for Boston City Hall catalyzed the city's urban revival in the late 1960s and embodied the era's idealism and civic activism." " The New York Times
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:18PM on April 5, 2020