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ntil they worked together, Keith Moskow and Robert Linn had never met. But that didn’t stop them from becoming fast friends. “It was 1997, just before Keith was speaking with a client about a residential tower above the Mass Pike,” Linn recalls.
“We met, shook hands, and acted as if we had worked together for years.” The tower was never built, but it was just the beginning of Moskow and Linn’s collaboration. At Moskow Linn, the firm that Moskow initially founded solo in 1990, the two architects have carved a niche into the New England landscape. Moskow Linn Architects introduces a fresh, new take on a regional vernacular. “People come to us because they recognize that we don’t just mimic historical styles,” Moskow explains. “We incorporate the best from the past.” Although the two resolved not to specialize in any one area, their work is about 90 percent residential. It ranges from a reimagined farmhouse outside Boston to modern takes on traditional vacation homes in New Hampshire and Vermont, to a sustainable, zero-energy community built on a Newburyport, Massachusetts, brownfield site. Moskow and Linn are also responsible for the 9/11 Memorial at Logan Airport and the new headquarters of the Conservation Law Foundation in Boston. “All of our work is designed for specific environments,” Moskow says. The two are proud of what they call “urban interventions,” which include a Zipcar stacking mechanism, shading devices for buildings, aesthetically pleasing cell phone towers, and a floating device that collects
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“ PEOPLE COME TO US BECAUSE THEY RECOGNIZE THAT WE DON’T JUST MIMIC HISTORICAL STYLES, WE INCORPORATE THE BEST FROM THE PAST.”
garbage in the Charles River. “As designers, we believe in doing more to make everything better,” says Moskow. The partners are also proud to join the pantheon of Hall of Fame inductees. “Beside San Francisco, the Boston area is home to the country’s highest concentration of architects,” says Moskow. “We are honored to have been chosen from such an important group of professionals.”
Photography by Peter Vanderwarker (top and bottom), Moskow Linn Architects (middle)
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