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HOK was established in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1955. [2] The firm is named for its three founding partners: George F. Hellmuth, Gyo Obata and George Kassabaum, all graduates of the School of Architecture at Washington University in St. Louis.
The HOK Sport studio was led by architect Ron Labinski, who has been described as "the world's first sports venue architect." [ 5 ] [ 6 ] On several projects, HOK Sport had teamed with international design practice LOBB Partnership, which maintained offices in London, England, and Brisbane, Australia.
HOK (firm), an American worldwide design, architecture and urban planning firm; Hok, Sweden, a village; Hok/sok system, a host-killing gene of the R1 E. coli plasmid; Army Operational Command (Denmark) (Danish: Hærens Operative Kommando) Henge of Keltria, a druid order; Hokan languages, a hypothetical language family of indigenous languages of ...
Gyo Obata (小圃 暁, February 28, 1923 – March 8, 2022) was an American architect, the son of painter Chiura Obata and his wife, Haruko Obata, a floral designer. In 1955, he co-founded the global architectural firm HOK (formerly Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum).
MacLeamy began practicing at HOK in the firm’s St. Louis office in 1967. He relocated to San Francisco in 1970 to help establish the firm’s first regional office. He was named managing principal of that office in 1983 and became HOK's chief operating officer in 2000. [16] In 2003, MacLeamy was appointed CEO [17] and in 2012 he also was ...
Hellmuth was a nephew of George F. Hellmuth, [4] who founded HOK and its predecessor, Hellmuth, Yamasaki and Leinweber, in 1949. [5]Hellmuth received a Bachelor of Science (Architecture) degree from the University of Virginia, and, in 1977, a Master of Architecture from Princeton University, where he studied under Michael Graves. [1]
William Valentine started his career at HOK in the St. Louis in 1962. In 1970, he moved to California to help open HOK's San Francisco office. In 2000, he was named president and design principal of HOK and in 2005 he assumed the role of chairman. Valentine retired from HOK in 2012, after 50 years with the firm.
Under the aircraft designation system used by the U.S. Navy pre-1962, Navy and U.S. Marine Corps versions were originally designated as the HTK, HOK or HUK, for their use as training, observation or utility aircraft, respectively. The Air Force Version was the H-43A, however after 1962 the designation system was consolidated, and that became ...