Lance Hosey

Lance Hosey is an architect and author who has written two books, contributed to several others, and published hundreds of essays for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, and many other media outlets. In 2018, he won the American Institute of Architects Sarah Booth Conroy Prize, and in 2015 he became one of only 30 people in the world to be named a Fellow with both the AIA and the US Green Building Council. Builder magazine has said “Lance Hosey is on a crusade to revolutionize what it means to be sustainable.”

Remembering Lance Hosey

By Heather M. Boyer / On September 13th, 2021
Lance Hosey was an author that I came to consider a friend-outside of, and sometimes in spite of, our work on his book. In The Shape of Green, Lance argued that beauty is an environmental imperative. Obviously, that meant that the book had to be beautiful, and Lance had many thoughts about what that meant.

#ForewordFriday: Green Design Edition

By Katharine Sucher / On March 17th, 2017
In honor of St. Patrick's Day, Island Press wanted to share an excerpt with a little green in it. In The Shape of Green, nationally recognized architect and designer Lance Hosey offers an answer to the question: does going green change the face of design or only its content?
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A Better Standard of Better Design

By Lance Hosey / On May 29th, 2013
Design, declared Nobel economist Herbert Simon, means "changing existing situations into better ones." Wonderful, but who decides what's "better"? With architecture, often what passes for good is whatever the designer says it is. From The Fountainhead's Howard Roark ("The creator serves nothing and no one.