American architect Invoice Hellmuth, who designed many initiatives as president after which CEO of world structure studio HOK, has handed away aged 69 after an extended sickness.
The architect died on 6 April following an extended sickness, in keeping with a press release printed on the HOK web site, which remembered Hellmuth’s life and work.
Born in 1953, the architect served as president of HOK and design principal for the studio’s Washington DC workplace from 2005. He was additionally named CEO in 2016 and chairman a yr later.
Hellmuth was recognized for his “hands-on” strategy to designing buildings, overseeing dozens of initiatives throughout 20 nations throughout his profession at HOK – from places of work and embassies to museums and hospitals.
These embody the UAE’s 75-storey Abu Dhabi Nationwide Oil Firm Headquarters and the King Abdullah Petroleum Research and Analysis Heart in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hellmuth designed many buildings within the US equivalent to The Steven F Udvar-Hazy Heart in Virginia – an extension to the Smithsonian Establishment’s authentic HOK-designed Nationwide Air and House Museum.
Late HOK co-founder Gyo Obata, who handed away final yr aged 99, served as a long-standing mentor to Hellmuth after encouraging him to affix HOK in 1991.
Underneath Hellmuth’s hand, HOK produced tons of of green-certified initiatives and over 400 designers achieved “inexperienced” certification, in keeping with the structure studio.
The architect additionally launched the HOK Range x Design Scholarship in 2021, which awards annual scholarships to underrepresented design college students.
“Hellmuth was exceptionally optimistic in regards to the means of design to enhance individuals’s lives,” stated the studio.
The architect attended the College of Virginia within the Nineteen Seventies, incomes a Bachelor of Science diploma in Structure.
He then went on to obtain a Grasp of Structure from Princeton College the place he studied underneath the late architect Michael Graves. After graduating, he joined Chicago-based studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Over his lifetime, Hellmuth gained 29 awards for his work from the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
The AIA elevated him to its School of Fellows in 2017, whereas the College of Virginia’s Faculty of Structure introduced Hellmuth with its Distinguished Alumni Award the next yr.
The architect was the nephew of HOK co-founder George F Hellmuth who helped to ascertain HOK underneath its former identify Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum in 1954.
Invoice Hellmuth is survived by his spouse, Nancy, in addition to his daughter Grayson and her husband, Cleve Rueckert, and his son William and his two grandchildren.
The pictures are courtesy of HOK.
