{"id":71709,"date":"2021-05-11T10:56:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T14:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/?p=71709"},"modified":"2021-05-11T11:39:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:39:20","slug":"art-gensler-passes-away-at-85","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/inspiration\/industry\/art-gensler-passes-away-at-85\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Gensler, World-Renowned Architect and Brilliant Businessman, Passes Away At 85"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">M. Arthur Gensler Jr, who founded the world&#8217;s largest architectural firm and designed the world&#8217;s <\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/projects\/shanghai-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">second tallest tower<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, has died aged 85. <\/span>After an 18-month battle with lung disease, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/local\/article\/Art-Gensler-architect-who-built-a-tiny-S-F-shop-16166415.php?converted=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Franciso Chronicle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reports that he passed away in his sleep at home in Mill Valley, Marin County.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71711\" style=\"width: 790px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71711\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71711 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/AG.jpeg?resize=780%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/AG.jpeg?w=780&amp;ssl=1 780w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/AG.jpeg?resize=300%2C156&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/AG.jpeg?resize=768%2C399&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/AG.jpeg?resize=400%2C208&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Art Gensler, Image via <a href=\"https:\/\/nobhillgazette.com\/art-gensler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nob Hill Gazette<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in Brooklyn and raised in Connecticut, four years after his 1958 graduation from Cornell University&#8217;s College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Art relocated to the West Coast. By 1965, he had already started a small studio in San Francisco that would later evolve into the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/firms\/firm-name=Gensler\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">world&#8217;s largest architectural firm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Now operating in 50 countries worldwide, today, the humble studio that he originally founded with the late Drue Gensler, his wife, and James Follett has an annual revenue of $1.5 billion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The firm got a leg up in the industry designing local skyscraper interiors for <a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/firms\/skidmore-owings-merrill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Skidmore, Owings &amp; Merrill<\/a> and continued expanding across the U.S. throughout the 1970s. In the following decades, its reach grew overseas, with offices opened in London, Japan and Hong Kong in the late 1980s and early 1990s, followed by Shanghai in the early naughts. Throughout this time, Gensler worked on countless projects, ranging in scale and typology, from the thirty-five-year involvement in the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/projects\/san-francisco-international-airport-terminal-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">San Francisco International Airport<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/nymag.com\/arts\/architecture\/reviews\/41518\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York Times Headquarters&#8217; interior<\/span><\/a> to the recent <a href=\"https:\/\/press.moma.org\/news\/museum-renovation-and-expansion-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">expansion and renovation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71715\" style=\"width: 1610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71715\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71715 lazy lazy_media_item\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?resize=1600%2C1195&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1195\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?w=1600&amp;ssl=1 1600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?resize=300%2C224&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?resize=1024%2C765&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?resize=768%2C574&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?resize=1536%2C1147&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?resize=66%2C50&amp;ssl=1 66w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/139345003215204374_51156.jpeg?resize=400%2C300&amp;ssl=1 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71715\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/projects\/san-francisco-international-airport-terminal-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Airport Terminal 2<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/firms\/gensler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gensler<\/a>, San Francisco, California<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to his business acumen, Art was a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gensler.com\/people\/m-arthur-gensler-jr?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=archdaily.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">decorated architect<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and critical figure in ennobling interior design within the profession. Championing a human-centered and experience-driven approach to design \u2014 described as an &#8220;inside-out&#8221; architectural approach \u2014 led his firm to prioritize the user journey in their buildings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This design philosophy translated into a business model that is not only client-focused but also one that strives to nurture its employees. During the era where &#8220;starchitecture&#8221; gained traction, Art rooted his business in a &#8220;one-firm firm&#8221; culture, advocating for teamwork and promoting collaborative design as an essential strategy for realizing great buildings. As the company expanded across continents, he recognized the value of integrating local talent with global building culture.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_71713\" style=\"width: 1868px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71713\" class=\"lazy lazy_media_item wp-image-71713 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.arc.ht\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/cf6f421b-scaled.jpeg?resize=1858%2C2560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1858\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/cf6f421b-scaled.jpeg?w=1858&amp;ssl=1 1858w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/cf6f421b-scaled.jpeg?resize=218%2C300&amp;ssl=1 218w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/cf6f421b-scaled.jpeg?resize=743%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 743w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/cf6f421b-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C1058&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/cf6f421b-scaled.jpeg?resize=1115%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1115w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.staging.arc.ht\/wp-content\/uploads\/cf6f421b-scaled.jpeg?resize=1487%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1487w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-71713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/projects\/shanghai-tower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shanghai Tower<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/architizer.com\/firms\/gensler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gensler<\/a>, Shanghai, China<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gensler.com\/art-gensler-legacy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stated by<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the office that he founded, Art\u2019s \u201cgift to the firm was not a vision for what it could be, but rather an ethos that allowed it to grow and prosper against all odds. That ethos was distinguished by a belief in collaboration, support of design education and career advancement, respect for individuals, dedication to clients, and endorsement of sustainable design.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For these reasons, his legacy does not simply rest in the buildings that his firm produced, nor does it exclusively lie in the eponymous office that he leaves behind. Art Gensler&#8217;s leadership and values impacted the entire profession for over half a century and will continue to reverberate in the years to come.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of the world&#8217;s largest architectural firm who designed the world&#8217;s second tallest tower, Art Gensler has passed away at 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