Lecture: Lance Hosey, “Beauty, Ecology, and Design.”

Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED AP

Architect and author Lance Hosey is Chief Sustainability Officer with the global design leader RTKL. As one of the world’s largest architecture and planning firms, with over a thousand people in a dozen offices on four continents, RTKL has significant reach and influence on the built environment. Lance is a former Director with the pioneering sustainable design firm William McDonough + Partners and the former President & CEO of the sustainability nonprofit GreenBlue. His latest book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design, the first to study the relationships between sustainability and beauty, has been Amazon’s #1 bestseller for sustainable design. He has been featured in Metropolis magazine’s “Next Generation” program and Architectural Record’s “emerging architect” series, and he has been a Fellow of the Michael Kalil Endowment for Smart Design and a Resident of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. Eco-pioneer John Elkington calls Lance “an inspirational guide to a future we can't wait to embrace,” and Builder magazine says Lance “is on a crusade to revolutionize what it means to be sustainable.”