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Kenneth E. Taylor, A.I.A.
An American architect and urban planner based in Cambridge, MA, Taylor was born in Warren County, MO in 1940, and grew up in the environs of Saint Louis. After a public school education he went to Principia College in Elsah, Illinois, and Washington University in Saint Louis, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1962 and a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1963.

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Early Career

Hoskins Scott Taylor & Partners (1977-1991)

Taylor & Partners (1991-2016)

Public Activity

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Bibliography

Early Career
After graduation, he traveled in Europe and worked for two years designing housing at the Greater London Council. Construction for three resulting 25-storey housing towers was completed in the bomb-devastated East End in 1970. Meanwhile he returned to Saint Louis to work as a designer for Gyo Obata at Helmuth Obata + Kassabaum (HO+K). His projects for HO+K included the competition-winning Laclede’s Landing development and the Benton Convention Center in Winston Salem, NC.

In 1967 he joined The Architects Collaborative (TAC) in Cambridge, MA where he was responsible for programming and planning of the 1.5 million square-foot University of Minnesota Health Sciences Center in Minneapolis, MN as well as the University of California, Irvine Teaching Hospital. Other projects at TAC included planning and design of the Primary Care Center at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and of St. Mary’s Hospital in Kansas City, MO. In 1976 he was appointed TAC Managing Director of Professional Services.

Hoskins Scott Taylor & Partners, Inc.
In 1977 Taylor and two colleagues founded the Boston architectural firm of Hoskins Scott Taylor & Partners. The firm planned and designed major teaching hospital projects at Boston University Medical Center and Boston City Hospital. Taylor led the master plan and programming team for Massachusetts General Hospital’s 1,040-bed Inpatient Renovation and Replacement projects. He was principal-in-charge of the resulting renovation projects in the Bigelow, Gray, and White buildings and the planning and design of the new Ellison and 16-storey Blake buildings. He was Architect-of-Record for the 24-storey Ellison Building, completed in 1992.

Taylor & Partners, Inc.
In 1991, Hoskins Scott Taylor & Partners split into two firms. Taylor created a new firm, Taylor & Partners, with offices in Boston and Newport, Rhode Island. Major projects completed under his leadership included Lahey Clinic Hospital in Peabody, MA, and Newport Hospital in Newport, RI. The firm served as consulting architect for the acute-care and psychiatric hospital at the Federal Medical Center, Fort Devens, MA for the Federal Bureau of Prisons and for the W. K. Kellogg Eye Center at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor.

Taylor led the planning team for the 2004 Urban Design for Central Newport, which was adopted as the master plan for the center of the historic Rhode Island city. The same team also created the Town Center Plan for Portsmouth, RI.

Committed to historic preservation, Taylor & Partners’ offices were housed in important historic buildings, the 1892 [Flour and Grain Exchange Building] (177 Milk Street) and the 1893 Ames Building (One Court Street) in Boston, and the 1750 Buliod-Perry House (29 Touro Street) on Washington Square in Newport.

Public Activity
A 20-year resident of Beacon Hill in Boston, Taylor serves as chair of the Beacon Hill Architectural Commission.

Past Member of New England Baptist Hospital Corporation

Past Member of Board of Directors, Newport Art Museum

Past Member of Property Committee, Preservation Society of Newport County

Light Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts, an initiative to light the city’s important structures appropriately

Founding Member of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for Real Estate

Member of National Council of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in Saint Louis