William McDonough

Architect & Designer

Interview Highlights
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William McDonough Partners
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Inspirations
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Architecture School at Yale
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Innovation in Architecture
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Amory Lovins and Paul Hawken
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Design Philosophy Cradle to Cradle
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Walker Evans
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Childhood
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Buckminster Fuller (Part One)
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Buckminster Fuller (Part Two)
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Poetic Science
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Recycling
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Definition of Innovation
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What Kind of Architect Are You?
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The Rouge Plant and Ford Motor Company (Part One)
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The Rouge Plant and Ford Motor Company (Part Two)
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The Green Roof (Part One)
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The Green Roof (Part Two)
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Where Do Innovators Meet?
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Sustaining Creating Innovative Workplace
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Favorite Music
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Green Architecture
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Solar Power
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Legacy
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America as a Place for Innovation
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Big and Little Fixes
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Advice to Youth
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Working for Clients
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Achievements
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Legacies
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Current Activities
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Message to the Future
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Responsibility and Transparency
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Storytelling
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We're going to need a new design protocol, a new way of going about things. And that's going to require massive innovation.
William McDonough

About the Innovator

A leader in the field of sustainable design, William McDonough creates strategies for "environmentally intelligent" buildings. His constructions incorporate nature into design and feature daylight, fresh air, diversity, life, and creativity.

Why He Innovates

William McDonough's designs have helped shape environmental and manufacturing policy. His work and his writings are influencing a new industrial revolution, one that relies on a mutual relationship with the biological world.