Bill Hellmuth, chairman and CEO of HOK Inc. and the backbone of the architecture firm’s D.C. presence, died April 6 after a long illness, HOK announced. He was 69.
Hellmuth had a hand in the design of dozens of buildings in Greater Washington, including Constitution Square, D.C.’s Consolidated Forensic Laboratory, the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and the National Center for Weather and Climate Prediction.
“He was a whirlwind of energy, he was always on the move,” Susan Klumpp Williams, managing principal of the D.C. office and Hellmuth’s friend of 30 years, said in an interview. “He couldn’t stand to sit around his desk for long periods of time, he was always floating around the studio, going downstairs multiple times a day to talk to the designers and looking to see what they had, very engaged with people both internally and externally.”
A Cleveland native, Hellmuth started his career in New York, joining HOK in 1991. The firm, formerly known as Hellmuth,…
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