The Smarter Planet blog took time out of their busy agenda to catch up with our very own Chip Crawford yesterday as part of their innovation/pure genius blog. The Q+A covers everything from his early interests in the field of Landscape Architecture to the latest thinking around the HOK effect and FIT. I know that we all think the world is smarter with Chip in it…cool to see other big thinkers do too! Check it out here.
It has been a while since I have posted, but not for lack of something to say. I’ve been buzzing around the world most of the last few months. It’s a pace that has that crazy effect of being completely exhausting and strangely exhilirating. I’ve learned that it’s the people that keep me going. And it’s seeing projects like this, of the first village in Lavasa, coming to life.
Just a couple weeks ago we were meeting with our Lavasa partners, and I really mean partners – …
Very inspiring presentation by Gordon Brown from last week’s TED Global Conference in Oxford. [Not sure I agree with all the institutional government layers being a 'ground up' guy]…but certainly was moved by the call for a global community and the reality that no one nation [location] can get it all done. Much of his focus on global alignment around a common set of values is right on…and is something we need to improve at HOK. Few other firms have the opportunity at the scale we do to get this right. What is the ethic [ethos] that uniquely holds us together at HOK?…How can HOK leverage our technologies and incredible reach to solve critical global issues? Seems to …
I have the incredible fortune to be in Montana right now with a unique ensemble of biomimicrists, a planner, an architect and an engineer, all of which despite their diverse backgrounds, are birds of a feather. As part of HOK’s alliance with the Biomimicry Guild, we’re here cooking up some big ideas for our clients today and tomorrow. It is so exciting to be a part of this convergence that is forging a new path, based on some very old principles, for a more sustainable future. One thought for the day which came from Gerry Faubert “…designing uni-functional buildings is like designing a city with only one-way …
It is an exciting time to do what we do. In a couple weeks I will be back in India with our Lavasa team seeing first hand this series of communities taking shape. Each time we go, the collaboration with our clients and partners at the Biomimicry Guild and Buro Happold is enriched with new ideas for a more sustainable future and new breakthroughs for how we can incorporate nature’s genius into solutions for the built environment. There is an energy now in the design community that you can’t help but be excited about. Just check out the …
“The Creation of a Thousand Forests is in One Acorn”
What better phrase to encapsulate all that our leader, Chip Crawford, is to us here at the HOK Planning Group. Chip is, as some may know, the founder of the Planning Group. He is an inspiration every day to those of us lucky enough to sit with him in St Louis, and he has touched so many lives around the globe.
On January 30, we had a nice gathering in St. Louis to celebrate his 25 years and present him with generous gifts contributed by Planning team members from around the globe as well as the poster you see …
