William McDonough

William A. McDonough ( born 1951 in Tokyo, Japan) is an American architect, designer and author who is known for his commitment to sustainable development and the cradle-to -cradle concept.

McDonough is the winner of three Presidential Awards, the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996 ), the National Design Award ( 2004) and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award ( 2003). He is, together with Prof. Dr. Michael Braungart, author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, in which he calls for a radical rethinking of the manufacturing process of products - from eco-efficiency to eco-effectiveness. In 1992, both authors Hannover Principles out, the ecological principles for the EXPO 2000 in Hanover. In addition, he founded the architectural firm William McDonough Partners and is head of the development company McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry. He is, inter alia, as a consulting professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University and sits on the Leadership Council worked Yale University.

1999 evaluated him, Time magazine as a " Hero for the Planet ".

2013 he published his second book, " Intelligent waste - The Upcycle: On the way to a new affluent society " in which he and Braungart evaluate the results so far of the cradle-to- crade concept and ways to continuously improve the economy towards true sustainability ( " upcycling " ) show.