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Hellmuth began to dream of founding his own firm where he could devote himself to finding a steady stream of projects and his partners could devote themselves to getting the work done. Hellmuth's son, Nick, also an architect, told me, “My dad had two outstanding gifts. The first was selling. The second was identifying people with talent.” Hellmuth's gift for identifying talented people led him to two SHG colleagues. Minoru Yamasaki was the well-regarded designer he had helped recruit to SHG. Joe Leinweber, another SHG vice president, was a top production architect who had been with the firm since 1924. When Hellmuth approached them with his ideas for a new kind of architecture practice, they agreed to form their own firm.

FIGURE 2.1 Minoru Yamasaki and George Hellmuth c. 1949.

Source: Photo courtesy of HOK.