Although Bobby’s role in shaping the built environment worldwide continues to manifest itself in powerful ways, his influence on people remains his greatest legacy. Indeed, he was an Architect of relationships.
In several meetings over the last few weeks, his wisdom has surfaced as though it were etched in granite — indelible and infallible.
“Make people love you,” a colleague said, recalling Bobby’s advice.
It was spoken both as a professional admonition for winning new work and building relationships among project teams, but also as a sort of charm to beguile the most obstinate of people, always wielded with an earnest desire to win people over.
Bobby did make people love him, and we are all better for it.