Colleagues of Kohn Pedersen Fox managing partner Gregory Clement III, FAIA, were hit hard when they learned of his death on April 11. “Toward the last year he was traveling a lot,” says senior associate principal Nick Dunn, AIA, “so not to see him for a while wasn’t out of the ordinary.” But in addition to snagging new business or navigating a bureaucratic minefield, Clement, a naturally charismatic 56-year-old, was fighting a two-year battle against melanoma.
Clement joined KPF from I.M. Pei & Partners in 1984, and Dunn recalls that the two immediately clicked as a team. “We brought our friendship to whatever project we approached,” Dunn says. “It put people at ease that we got along and that we had developed a comedic repartee.”
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