I’ve mentioned HOK’s commitment to Design Resilience in the past, and it is with this in mind that I’d like to recommend a quick view of the commencement address given by a landscape architecture student to the Graduate School of Design at Harvard this spring. He gives a spirited talk entitled “The Harvard Elm Crisis” in which the loss of the school’s historic elms is woven into a parable about why we must strive for biodiversity and design resilience into our beloved places. Seems …
Mr. Behind-the-Scenes was Front-and-Center at Thursday evening’s CFO of the Year Awards, hosted by the St. Louis Business Journal.
Our own Bob Pratzel accepted the TOP AWARD in the “Large Private Companies” category. The second-annual awards program shined the spotlight on the region’s finest financial execs.
Since joining HOK in 1986, Bob has master-minded resilient strategies that have served the firm well – in times of plenty and times of not.
During his off-the-cuff acceptance speech, Bob amused the audience by divulging that the occasion brought back memories of his Bar Mitzvah. He concluded his remarks by giving …
It’s a very exciting time around the Planning Group, we’re always on the go! As such, we recently took some time to mentally escape from the day-to-day and explore the “Art of the Long View.” Inspired by Peter Schwartz’ book of the same name, we partnered with our friends at Magellan Consulting to research what we felt were the top 10 forces shaping our world between now and 2050. We’re calling this the futurity series. As we re-imagine the role of the design community in our global economy, this material has served as food-for-thought for some amazing conversations across HOK.
So what did we learn? Though we’re still chatting, the idea of resiliency has undeniably emerged as …
