Julie Hiromoto, FAIA joined HKS in early 2016 as a Vice President. She balances design excellence and technical expertise as a project manager and Director of Integration. Her experience includes realizing complex and large-scale commercial, residential, and mixed use towers (including One World Trade Center), corporate headquarter fit outs, urban design master planning, and research initiatives with the Center for Architecture Science and Ecology (CASE).
Ms. Hiromoto is a recognized leader in the local and national sustainable design community. In 2020, she chaired the AIA Committee on the Environment (COTE). The Dallas Mayor appointed her to the City’s Environmental Commission in 2022. Julie taught at NYU’s Shack Institute of Real Estate (2009-2018) and influenced the curriculum for the Sustainable Design Certificate program. She was invited to join the inaugural Dean’s Adjunct Advisory Group in 2015.
Her 2019 Congressional testimony before the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee influenced federal policy. In 2021, she represented the 94,000 members of the AIA in their first delegation to the United Nations COP in Glasgow, Scotland. In addition to lecturing internationally at conferences, universities, and General Electric’s Executive Leadership Development program, Hiromoto is also a frequent guest critic at institutions such as Columbia University GSAPP, University of Michigan, Georgia Tech, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Parsons The New School of Design, and Pratt Institute. Julie completed a BS ARCH at Georgia Tech summa cum laude and MARCH, with highest honor, from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Presentation (GSAPP). A Registered Architect, Hiromoto is also LEED, WELL and Living Future Accredited.