William Andrews McDonough was born on February 20,1951 and is an American architect and academic.
19 Facts About William McDonough
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William McDonough studied architecture at Yale University in the mid-1970s.
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William McDonough founded an architectural practice in New York City in 1981.
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William McDonough moved his practice, William McDonough + Partners, to Charlottesville, Virginia in 1994 when he accepted the position of the dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia.
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William McDonough served as dean until 1999 and has since been a professor of business administration and an alumni research professor.
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William McDonough says he aspires to design something like a tree, something that creates good, like oxygen, rather than minimizing negative impact.
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William McDonough co-founded the Make It Right Foundation with Brad Pitt to rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans in 2007.
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In 2008, William McDonough was a senior advisor and Venture Partner at VantagePoint Capital Partners, one of the largest venture capital investors in clean technology.
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At the January 2014 World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, William McDonough led a workshop for CEOs that was centered around sustainable design, with an added focus on cradle-to-cradle, the upcycle, and the circular economy.
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William McDonough was appointed chair of the forum's Meta-Council on Circular Economy in July 2014.
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William McDonough addressed the Arctic Circle China Forum in Shanghai in May 2019.
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William McDonough is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council.
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William McDonough is the chief executive of McDonough Innovation, which provides consulting to global companies, organizations, and governments.
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Since then, William McDonough + Partners has been responsible for numerous milestones in the sustainable movement, such as 901 Cherry Avenue in San Bruno, California, completed in 1997 for Gap, Inc.
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William McDonough received a commission for an environmental re-engineering of the River Rouge Plant for Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan.
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William McDonough designed it to meet a conventional budget and tight timeline, be a test bed for NASA technologies, and exceed LEED Platinum metrics.
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In 2008, a PBS Frontline investigation found that William McDonough's poor planning and execution of the Huangbaiyu project had doomed it to failure from the start.
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In 1996, William McDonough became the first individual recipient of the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development.
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William McDonough was profiled by Vanity Fair, Discover, and Time.