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May 12, 2021
Arthur “Art” Gensler Jr., B.Arch. ’58, who was celebrated as a global architect, astute entrepreneur and founder of a small practice that became one of the largest and most successful firms in the industry, died May 10 at age 85.
Throughout his 65-year career, Gensler was known for his ethos of putting people first, as well as his generosity and commitment to Cornell and the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP).
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“Grounded yet optimistic, matter-of-fact yet prescient, Art Gensler always saw things not just as they were, but as they could be,” said J. Meejin Yoon, the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean of AAP.
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Diane Hoskins has been co-ceo at Gensler for more than 15 years. The firm she jointly oversees is the largest architecture and design company in the world with more than 5,000 employees and 50 global offices from Bogotá to Beijing. It has come a long way from the early days of what Hoskins calls “a family-owned start-up”, established by Art Gensler in San Francisco in 1965. Despite the company’s size – and leading the pack in global revenues, which topped $1.5bn (€1.2bn) in 2020, up 12 per cent on the previous year – Hoskins says that she doesn’t see Gensler as a corporation. The firm shuns top-heavy hierarchies for a more horizontal management approach known as the “constellation of stars”, something that Hoskins says is Gensler’s “secret sauce”.