American architect Invoice Hellmuth, who designed many tasks as president after which CEO of worldwide structure studio HOK, has handed away aged 69 after a protracted sickness.
The architect died on 6 April following a protracted sickness, in accordance with an announcement revealed 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 identified for his “hands-on” strategy to designing buildings, overseeing dozens of tasks throughout 20 international locations 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 Middle in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hellmuth designed many buildings within the US similar to The Steven F Udvar-Hazy Middle in Virginia – an extension to the Smithsonian Establishment’s unique 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.
Below Hellmuth’s hand, HOK produced tons of of green-certified tasks and over 400 designers achieved “inexperienced” certification, in accordance 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 concerning the capability of design to enhance individuals’s lives,” mentioned 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 beneath the late architect Michael Graves. After graduating, he joined Chicago-based studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
Over his lifetime, Hellmuth received 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 College of Structure offered Hellmuth with its Distinguished Alumni Award the next yr.
The architect was the nephew of HOK co-founder George F Hellmuth who helped to determine HOK beneath 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.
