Nov 30 2012
William McDonough – Green Architect Speaker
The Most Influential Green Architect in the World and Green Architect Speaker
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.’ In 2007, he was elected an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and is part of the Management Committee of HRH The Prince of Wales’s Business & The Environment Programme at Cambridge University.
Mr. McDonough works with corporations to redesign buildings, processes and products to work according to nature’s rules
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