William A. McDonough, FAIA, Int. FRIBA William McDonough is an…

William A. McDonough, FAIA,
Int. FRIBA


     William McDonough is an internationally
renowned designer and one of the primary
proponents and shapers of what he and his partners
call `The Next Industrial Revolution.' Time magazine
recognized him in 1999 as a `Hero for the Planet',
stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified
philosophy that-in demonstrable and practical ways-
is changing the design of the world." Time
Magazine again recognized Mr. McDonough and
Michael Braungart as "Heroes of the Environment"
in October 2007. In 1996, Mr. McDonough
received the Presidential Award for Sustainable
Development, the nation's highest environmental
honor; and in 2003 earned the U.S. EPA
Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award. In
2004 he received the National Design Award for
exemplary achievement in the field of
environmental design. In October 2007, Mr.
McDonough was elected an International Fellow of
the Royal Institute of British Architects.

    Mr. McDonough is the founding principal of
William McDonough + Partners, an internationally
recognized design firm practicing ecologically,
socially, and economically intelligent architecture
and planning in the U.S. and abroad. He is also              Mr. McDonough's leadership in sustainable
principal of MBDC, a product and systems                development is recognized widely, both in the U.S.
development firm assisting prominent client             and internationally, and he has written and lectured
companies in designing profitable and                   extensively on his design philosophy and practice.
environmentally intelligent solutions.                  He was commissioned in 1991 to write The Hannover
                                                        Principles: Design for Sustainability as guidelines for the
    Mr. McDonough is a Venture Partner at               City of Hannover's EXPO 2000, and in 1993 to
VantagePoint Venture Partners in San Bruno,             give the Centennial Sermon at the Cathedral of St.
California.                                             John the Divine in New York City. More recently,
                                                        Mr. McDonough and Michael Braungart co-
    Mr. McDonough is an Alumni Research                 authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make
Professor at the University of Virginia's Darden        Things, published in 2002 by North Point Press.
Graduate School of Business Administration, and
Consulting Professor of Civil and Environmental
Engineering at Stanford University. He also serves
as U.S. Chairman and member of the Board of
Councilors of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable
Development. He is part of the Management
Committee of HRH The Prince of Wales's Business
& The Environment Programme at Cambridge
University. From 1994-1999, Mr. McDonough was
the Edward E. Elson Professor of Architecture and
Dean of the School of Architecture at the
University of Virginia.