William McDonough
William McDonough
William Andrews McDonough is an American designer, advisor, author, and thought leader. McDonough is founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistrywith German chemist Michael Braungart as well as co-author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance, also with Braungart. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth21 February 1951
CountryUnited States of America
I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.
I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.
If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever.
The problem carbon is that everyone thinks we have an energy problem, we don't. We have plenty of energy. We have a carbon problem. Carbon is a material, so we have a material problem, not an energy problem.
The Stone Age did not end because humans ran out of stones. It ended because it was time for a re-think about how we live.
terribly bad social policy and perhaps even bad morals.
At this point I don't want to discuss any future other than saving the shipyard,
we (the Fed) will do what we have to do to maintain price stability.
I can think of no more important project than this one because its ambitions are so high.
When we think the economic recovery is much more clear and certain than it is now, we will have time to do what is necessary,
It was an easy dunk for the commission to decide that the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Navy (Gordon English) were just way off base,
There are data saying that the economy is starting to recover, and there are data saying that it tends to be weak,
There is no question that the U.S. economy, especially in relation to the world economy, is beginning to exhibit signs of imbalance and strain.
If you continue to act like an artist as you get older, you'll increasingly feel pressure. People will question your actions.