Lance Hosey (September 11, 1964 - August 27, 2021) was an American architect. In 2020, he joined HMC Architects, a large California-based firm, as the design industry's first Chief Impact Officer.[1] Previously, he was a principal, design director, and co-leader of design resilience at Gensler.[2] He had been a project director with "green pioneer" William McDonough and was the first Chief Sustainability Officer with the international architecture firms RTKL Associates[3] and Perkins Eastman.[4]
Lance Hosey
Born
(1964-09-11)September 11, 1964
Died
August 27, 2021(2021-08-27) (aged 56)
Alma mater
Columbia University, Yale School of Architecture
Earlier in his career, Hosey worked as a designer with Rafael Viñoly[5] and with Charles Gwathmey[6] in New York. He also served as president and CEO of the sustainability research institute GreenBlue,[7] founded by McDonough and Michael Braungart and named one of "10 Green NGOs Business Should Know About."[8]
In 2021, Forbes cited Hosey as a "visionary architect."[19] Builder magazine has written that he is "on a crusade to revolutionize what it means to be sustainable."[20] Metropolis magazine said Hosey was "inventing a new kind of architecture that instead of being at odds with the environment, works with it."[21]
Hosey's writings appeared in The New York Times,[22]The Washington Post,[23] and Fast Company,[24] and he had been a columnist with The Huffington Post[25] and Architect magazine (2007-2010).[26] His books include The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design (Island Press, 2012), the first book to study the relationships between beauty and sustainability;[27]Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (Ecotone, 2007) (co-authored with Kira Gould), the first book in the design industry dedicated to sustainability, diversity, and innovation;[28] and Green Homes: New Ideas for Sustainable Living (HarperCollins, 2007), for which he wrote the introduction, “The Ecology of Home.”[29] In 2018, he won the Sarah Booth Conroy Prize for Journalism and Architectural Criticism from the Washington, DC chapter of the American Institute of Architects.[30]
Hosey gave keynotes at TED,[31] the Idea Festival,[32] and SXSW Eco.[33] Hosey died on August 27, 2021.[34]
Referencesedit
^Baldwin, Eric. ""Architects Never Waste a Good Crisis": HMC's New Chief Impact Officer on Reframing Design". www.archdaily.com//. ArchDaily. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
^"Aim Higher: How to Transition Your Firm to Zero Net Carbon". Architect Magazine. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^"Hosey Joins RTKL as Chief Sustainability Officer and SVP," Contract Magazine
^"Lance Hosey FAIA Joins Washington, DC, Office of Perkins Eastman as Firm's First Chief Sustainability Officer," WSPA
^Viñoly, Rafael (1 January 2002). Rafael Vinoly. Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 9783764366162.
^Collins, Brad (1 January 2003). Gwathmey Siegel: Buildings and Projects, 1992-2002. Random House Incorporated. ISBN 9780847825295.
^"Lance Hosey Named GreenBlue President and CEO – Press Releases on CSRwire.com". www.csrwire.com. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
^Herrera, Tilde. "10 Green NGOs Businesses Should Know About". www.greenbizgroup.com/. GreenBiz. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
^HSPVA, "Morning Glory," 1984."This Bass was Made for Walkin'". YouTube. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
^"In Memoriam: Space Architect and "Design Outlaw" Constance Adams". Metropolis. 5 July 2018. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^"Class Notes". Columbia College Today. Fall 1999. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
^Hosey, Lance (11 June 2012). The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design. ISBN 9781610912143.
^"For a Crash Course in Sustainable Business, What Are the "Must Read" Books?". Triple Pundit: People, Planet, Profit. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 5 October 2014.
^Green Homes. Harper Collins. 2007. p. 6. Retrieved 5 October 2014 – via Internet Archive. The Ecology of Home HOSEY.
^Goldchain, Michelle (21 February 2018). "Architect, author Lance Hosey wins architectural journalism prize". Curbed. Retrieved 1 March 2018.