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Mr. Gerald Hines
In 1948 a young mechanical engineer, freshly graduated from Purdue University, arrived in Houston and changed its skyline. Gerald Hines first built a small warehouse, then went on to more and bigger buildings until, in 1965, he produced the Shell Oil Company headquarters followed by other Houston landmarks such as The Galleria, Pennzoil Place, and the Transco Tower. His Houston buildings number in the hundreds, and today his firm is one of the largest and most respected real estate development and management firms in the world. It is changing skylines in 245 cities and 17 countries. meanwhile, Gerald Hines has established a reputation for marrying great architects to commercial development, working with Cesar Pelli, I.M. Pei, Frank Gehry, and Philip Johnson, among others. He is known for taking on the most complex of projects, for being sensitive to environmental and sustainability issues, and for being a far-sighted urban developer. Fittingly, the University of Houston has named its school of architecture the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture. He is also an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and a recipient of the Urban Land Institute's J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. The Hines support a myriad of educational, medical and civic non-profit organizations. While travels for work and pleasure take him all over the globe, Texas is always where he hangs his hat.

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