Professor Kevin Andrew Lynch, known as Kevin Lynch, 1918-1984, is a maestro architect, the urban designer legend. Kevin Lynch is known by the Image of the City theory, (MIT Press, 1960) those are: 1) path, 2) edges, 3) district, 4) nodes, and 5) landmarks. Lynch studied at Yale University, 1935-1937; was an intern at Frank Lloyd Wright’s firm, at 1937 until 1939; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1939-1940; and received the B.C.P. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1947. He was appointed instructor in city planning at MIT in 1948, assistant professor in 1949, associate professor in 1955, and professor in 1963.

Lynch influenced the field of city planning through his work for city design. Kevin Lynh consulted for many cities in the United States. Lynch wrote seven books and many articles include Image of the City (1960), which summarizes a 5-year study he co-directed with Gyorgy Kepes on how people perceive their cities, and more. source © edited by ar-chi-tect.org from MIT, wiki and related, picture edited from www.ub.es