Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories, and Strategies Behind HOK
Patrick MacLeamy
Wiley, April 2020

Hardcover | 7-1/4 x 9-1/4 inches | 288 pages | English | ISBN: 978-1119685302 | $75.00

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
Designing a World Class Architecture Firm: The People, Stories and Strategies Behind HOK tells the history of one of the largest design firms in the world and draws lessons from it that can help other architects, interior designers, urban planners and creative services professionals grow bigger or better. Former HOK CEO Patrick MacLeamy shares the revolutionary strategies HOK?s founders deployed to create a brand-new type of architecture firm. He pulls no punches, revealing the triple crisis that almost bankrupted HOK and describes how any firm can survive and thrive. Designing a World Class Architecture Firm tells the inside story of many of HOK?s most iconic buildings, including the National Air and Space Museum, Moscone Convention Center, Oriole Park at Camden Yards, the Houston Galleria and the reimagined LaGuardia Airport. Each chapter conveys lessons learned from HOK?s successes ?and failures? including:The importance of diversifying to depression-and-recession-proof your firmThe benefit of organizing your firm around specialized leaders and project typesThe difference between leading and managing your peopleThe value of simple financial metrics to ensure your firm?s health and profitabilityThe ?run toward trouble? strategy which pre...