Theorist
Kevin Lynch
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Details
- Nationality
- American
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ObservationLived experience
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Relational embodied
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- authored The Image of the City
- proposed Legibility & Imageability
- influenced Christian Norberg-Schulz
Sources
- Kevin Lynch. The Image of the City. MIT Press, 1960.
- in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 14 of 21
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Kevin Lynch." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/kevin-lynch/. Accessed July 17, 2026.