William McDonough

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Full Name	William McDonough
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Feb 20, 1951(1951-02-20)
Age	73
Birthplace	Tokyo
Country	United States
Birth City	Tokyo
Horoscope	Pisces

William McDonough Biography

William McDonough is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on February 20, 1951 in Tokyo, Tokyo, United States. McDonough was born in Tokyo, the son of an American Seagram’s executive, and trained at Dartmouth College and Yale University. In 1981 McDonough founded his architectural practice, and his first major commission was the 1984 Environmental Defense Fund Headquarters. The EDF’s requirement of good indoor air quality in the structure exposed McDonough to the need for sustainable development.

William McDonough and his architecture and urban design firm, William McDonough + Partners, ground their work in Cradle to Cradle Design, a philosophy developed by McDonough and German chemist Dr. Michael Braungart in their 2002 book, Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. The goal is to frame design as “a beneficial, regenerative force—one that seeks to create ecological footprints to delight in, not lament.” The primary goal of Cradle to Cradle Design is to shift thinking from doing “less bad” to being “more good.” McDonough has also articulated the Cradle to Cradle Design framework as The Five Goods™ (Good Materials, Good Economy, Good Energy, Good Water, Good Lives) to help companies focus and evaluate their efforts on becoming “more good.” The Five Goods were also designed to offer a streamlined method of addressing each of the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

In May 2008, Vanity Fair magazine offered an extensive profile of McDonough, which included a close look at several of his clients and projects, in the piece “Industrial Revolution, Take Two.” Similar profiles about McDonough and his work have been published by the San Francisco Chronicle, Discover Magazine, and Time Magazine.

On May 20, 2010 at Google Corporate Headquarters, the Googleplex, McDonough announced the launch of the Green Products Innovation Institute, which was later renamed the “Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute.” The Institute builds on the 2008 California state law that establishes the nation’s first green chemistry program. The non-profit public/private Institute has received the Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Products Program on an exclusive, worldwide basis to accelerate the transition to safe material use and increased material reutilization. Executives from Google, Walmart, YouTube, Shaw Inc. and Herman Miller Inc. joined McDonough for the announcement.

In 1996 McDonough became the first and only individual recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development. In 1999 Time called him “Hero for the Planet”. In 2002 he wrote (with Michael Braungart) Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things. In 2004 he received a National Design Award for environmental design from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

William McDonough Net Worth

William McDonough is one of the richest Architect from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William McDonough 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1984, McDonough and his colleagues designed the Environmental Defense Fund office in New York City. Since then, William McDonough + Partners has been responsible for other milestones in the movement, such as 901 Cherry Ave in San Bruno, California, completed in 1997 for Gap, Inc.; it is now home to Google’s YouTube. The building features a 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m) green roof that helps to prevent water runoff, insulates the building from noise and provides a habitat for several species, and received the BusinessWeek/Architectural Record Design Award in 1998. The Bernheim Arboretum Visitor Center for the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, in Clermont, Kentucky, completed in 2005, blurs the line between outdoor and indoor space. This project, like others designed by William McDonough + Partners, draws heavily on the biophilia hypothesis – the study of the human desire and physiological need for contact with nature. The building was awarded the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design Platinum rating.

McDonough’s architecture practice, William McDonough + Partners, operates in Charlottesville, Virginia. McDonough moved his practice from New York City to Charlottesville in 1994 when he was appointed as the Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia. He served as Dean until 1999 and has since served as a professor of business administration and an alumni research professor. He is chief executive of McDonough Innovation, which provides high-level consulting to global companies, organizations and governments and co-founded the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute. He is also co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), based in Charlottesville, Virginia.

A number of large corporate projects for The Gap, Nike, and Herman Miller, led to his commission for a 20-year, US$2 billion environmental re-engineering of the Ford Motor Company’s legendary River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan. The project included rolling out the world’s largest “living roof” in October

2002. The roof of the 1.1 million square foot (100,000 m²) Dearborn truck assembly plant was covered with more than 10 acres (40,000 m²) of sedum, a low-growing ground cover.

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William Andrews McDonough is an American architect, designer and author. McDonough is founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) as well as co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance. McDonough’s career is focused on creating a beneficial footprint. He espouses a message that we can design materials, systems, companies, products, buildings, and communities that continuously improve over time.

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William Ranked on the list of most popular Architect. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William McDonough celebrates birthday on February 20 of every year.

McDonough was named as one of Fortune Magazine’s World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2019 at number 24 in recognition of his contributions to the green building movement, being a leading proponent of the circular economy and his efforts to redesign plastics.

What is William McDonough famous for?

William McDonough is an architect and globally recognized leader in sustainable development and design. He is a pioneer of the concepts of Cradle to Cradle Design™, the Circular Economy and the Circular Carbon Economy, notably co-authoring Cradle to Cradle: Remaking The Way We Make Things.

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Where was William McDonough born?

Tokyo, Japan

What is the concept of Cradle to Cradle?

Cradle to cradle can be defined as the design and production of products of all types in such a way that at the end of their life, they can be truly recycled (upcycled), imitating nature’s cycle with everything either recycled or returned to the earth, directly or indirectly through food, as a completely safe, nontoxic …

What is sustainable architecture design?

Sustainable architecture is the use of design strategies that reduce the negative environmental impact from a built environment.