Lance Hosey

Architect and author Lance became President & CEO of GreenBlue in September, 2010. He brings with him over two decades of experience in sustainable design and strategy, and he has worked with some of the world’s leading companies to advance sustainable innovation.

Until 2009, Lance served as Director with the renowned pioneer of sustainable design, William McDonough + Partners, where his clients included Palm, SC Johnson, NASA, and Google. The recipient of numerous awards and honors, he has been a winner of the Michael Kalil Endowment Smart Design Award and a Resident of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, and he has been featured in Architectural Record’s “emerging architect” series and Metropolis magazine’s “next generation” program.

Lance is a former columnist with Architect magazine and the co-author, with Kira Gould, of Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (Ecotone Publishing, 2007). His latest book, The Shape of Green: Aesthetics, Ecology, and Design (Island Press, 2012), the first to outline a clear set of principles for aesthetics and sustainable design, studies how form and image can enhance conservation, comfort, and community at every scale of design, from products to cities. On the book’s jacket, sustainability guru John Elkington calls Lance “an inspirational guide to building a future we can’t wait to embrace.”

Lance has degrees from Columbia University and Yale University. Born and raised in Houston, TX, Lance is an avid jazz saxophonist and pianist and once played a poolside gig with Leonard Bernstein.