Every opinion counts at HOK. The 59-year-old firm embraces an interdisciplinary approach that values feedback from everyone: architects, engineers, planners and consultants. The resulting cross-pollination of free-flowing ideas and strategies produces innovative structures, some of which emulate the natural world to maximize sustainability.
"We want an integrated team, as opposed to consultants, embedded throughout the project process from start to finish," says Russ Drinker, a HOK senior vice president and San Francisco office management principal. "A more holistic design approach produces high performance results."