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George Hellmuth, Gyo Obata, and George Kassabaum wanted to design a world-class architecture firm. But before they could establish HOK, they needed to come together in the same city. George Kassabaum's family moved around a bit during his childhood, and he ended up going to college in St. Louis, because it was not far from their latest hometown. Gyo Obata was from far away, in Berkeley, California, and also came to St. Louis for college. Both Kassabaum and Obata would leave and come back, before finally meeting Hellmuth in St. Louis. Hellmuth was the only one of the founders to grow up in the River City, where he had the formative experience of watching his father and uncle struggle to keep their own small architecture firm afloat. St. Louis may seem like an improbable place for one of the world's largest design firms to form, yet it has a significant history.