The firm was established in 1976 by Eugene Kohn, William Pedersen and Sheldon Fox (1930-2006). Kohn (1930-) marketed the firm while Fox (1930-2006) functioned as the manager and Pedersen (1938-) served as the chief designer. A fourth principal, Patricia Conway (1937-) specialized in planning and interiors, and in 1984 became president of KPF's splinter interiors firm, Kohn Pedersen Fox Conway Associates, Inc. All four met while employed by John Carl Warnecke and Associates directly prior to KPF's founding.
Both Eugene Kohn and Sheldon Fox received their architectural degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Kohn worked as a designer for Vincent G. Kling Associates from 1960 to 1965, and as New York design director for Welton Becket Associates until 1967 when he became president and partner at John Carl Warnecke and Associates. By 1976 Fox had risen to senior vice president at Warnecke, following employment with Kahn Jacobs (1955-72). After receiving his bachelor's degree in architecture from the University of Minnesota, William Pedersen attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where after graduation he worked for Pietro Belluschi, MIT's Dean of Architecture and Planning. In 1965 he won the Rome Prize, spent two years of study at the American Academy in Rome and worked with Italian architect Eduardo Catalino. In 1967 he joined I.M. Pei and Associates until he was lured away in 1971 to become vice president of John Carl Warnecke and Associates. Columbia University graduate Patricia Conway was associate director of planning for Warnecke from 1972 to 1976.
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