GBMS with Lance Hosey

<p><strong>Lance Hosey</strong>, FAIA, LEED Fellow, a nationally acclaimed authority on sustainability and design innovation, is a Design Director and the Global Co-Director of Design Resilience with Gensler. His latest book, 'The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design' (Island Press, 2012), the first to study the relationships between sustainability and beauty, won a 2013 New York Book Show award, was a 2014 finalist for the National Urban Design Awards Book of the Year, and has been Amazon’s #1 bestseller for sustainable design. In 2017, Environmental Buildings News listed it as one of the books “all designers must read.” A popular public speaker, Lance has spoken at TED and keynoted SXSW Eco, the Idea Festival, and many other events. Lance has chaired the USGBC’s LEED Advisory Committee and served on the National Advisory Group for the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on the Environment (COTE), and as of 2016 he was one of only thirty people in the world named as Fellows with both organizations. In 2018, he won the AIA’s Sarah Booth Conroy Prize.</p> <p> </p> <h3><strong>Growing Up and College  </strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lance grew up in Texas, spending half of his childhood in El Paso. He spent the last half of his childhood in the suburbs of Houston which gave him a sense of how</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">communities should not be developed</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">. Lance went to High School for performing and visual arts and then went to New York and earned a B.A. in Architecture at Columbia University and went on to Yale for his Masters in Architecture.</span></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“So I have this sort of primal memory of wandering around in a very specific landscape, one that's fairly harsh.  I liked the combination of that, of those two experiences from my childhood because I kind of got a sense of what it's like to be in a unique environment while also being in a very generic envir