Lance Hosey

Lance Hosey, FAIA, LEED Fellow, is an acclaimed architect, author, advocate, and public speaker whose work focuses on ways to improve the impact of design. Currently he serves as a Principal and a Design Director with Gensler, where he also co-leads sustainability strategy across the firm. Previously he has been a Design Director with William McDonough + Partners and Chief Sustainability Officer with two of the world’s largest architecture firms. Earlier in his career, he was a designer with Rafael Viñoly and with Gwathmey Siegel in New York. Lance has authored two books, contributed to several others, and published hundreds of essays on design for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and many other media outlets. A popular public speaker, he has spoken at TED and keynoted SXSW Eco, the Idea Festival, and many other events, addressing a cumulative audience of over 25,000 people. His design, writing, and research have been published widely and received many awards and accolades. He has won the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Sarah Booth Conroy Prize and the Michael Kalil Endowment Smart Design award, was a runner-up for Metropolis magazine’s Next Generation Design Prize, and has been featured in Architectural Record’s "emerging architect" series. In 2015, he became one of only thirty people in the world to have been named a Fellow with both the AIA and the US Green Building Council. Lance has degrees in architecture from Columbia and Yale and has taught at Yale, the University of Virginia, the Catholic University of America, and George Washington University.