George Vincent Hogan was born in 1914 in Hawaii. He attended McKinley High School and studied architecture at the University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. He was 25 when he completed the Territory’s architect registration exams. At Harvard’s Graduate School of Design he studied for a year with Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer in 1940-1941. After four years in the Army during World War II, he and Albert Ives were architecture partners until 1955.

In 1958, Hogan and Don Chapman became partners in their architectural firm. Their first major project was Hamilton Library at the University of Hawaii – Phase I (1968) and Phase II (1977). The firm expanded and the projects increased, encompassing such structures as several other campus buildings, hotels, condominiums, parks, a post office, movie theaters, a chapel, a swimming pool and the fondly remembered PanAm Building.

By the 1980s Hogan was specializing in private homes, his preferred type of project. Their flowing spaces, strong emphasis on cross ventilation and the graceful opening up of a house to the outdoors make them especially appropriate for Hawaii. Two of his houses are on the Hawaii Register of Historic Places. His appreciation for Asian architecture is also visible in his distinctive dwellings for which he was favorably compared with Vladimir Ossipoff.

Hogan retired in 1979 but resumed his career from1981-1987. He died in 2009 at the age of 95.