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Marianne McKenna
Marianne McKenna co-founded Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, now KPMB, in 1987.
Background & practice
Marianne McKenna co-founded Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, now KPMB, in 1987. She studied at Swarthmore and Yale and worked at Barton Myers Associates before founding the practice. The joint 2025 RAIC Gold Medal profile connects her contribution with a diverse studio model, rigorous design and community engagement. It presents KPMB's work as a calibration of different influences, preserving the distinction between the partners' leadership and the office's collective achievements.
How to read the work
Combine a diverse studio culture with rigorous architectural judgement, allowing different perspectives to inform design while maintaining community engagement and shared responsibility within the partnership.
Founding partner and joint medal recipient; the source separately names KPMB's other founding partners.
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