The New York Times's David Streitfeld wrote about the Stanford University Libraries' Living Archive collaboration with William McDonough, in a piece titled "The Era of Deep Archiving Begins." Here's an excerpt: As a Dartmouth student in the early 1970s, William McDonough went, somewhat casually, to hear a lecture by a visiting celebrity. Mr. McDonough had little idea [...]

In May in San Francisco, William McDonough + Partners' David Johnson, partner and managing director, will speak at the International Concrete Sustainability Conference. He will talk about NASA Sustainability Base, a LEED Platinum-rated federal facility that embodies that aim of continuous improvement. As our client says: "This 50,000 square-foot, lunar-shaped building 'knows' exactly how much energy [...]

Here's an excerpt from the Wall Street Journal article about William McDonough's appearance and remarks at the Wall Street Journal's ECOnomics conference-- McDonough: "You need a much bigger plan when you approach a green building. I got a call a while ago to design a new motorcycle factory in India. I put the building's structure on [...]

Here's an excerpt: In the 1960s, the London-based avant-garde architectural group Archigram envisioned a new era of technology-infused architecture. They dreamed up robotic cities that could walk around, and cities in which cranes hoisted living spaces and plugged them into an existing framework structure as needed. While the group’s utopian visions have not come to pass, [...]

The California Academy of Sciences will host its 27th annual Big Bang Gala on April 18, 2013. Attendees will mingle with visionary leaders in environmental conservation and sustainability, critical topics at the core of the Academy’s mission, while reveling in a sensational atmosphere set inside the greenest museum on the planet. The evening begins with [...]

Here's a press release from the Institute about an exciting design challenge: Design Challenge: Prize Offers $250, 000 to Spur Product Innovation We’re looking to the design community to help make high-quality, healthy homes available for everyone. To help inspire innovation in developing healthy building materials for communities in need, the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute [...]

Luanne Bradley follows up her previous piece, which looked at the roots of sustainable design, with a look at the current state of the field. Her report includes reference to, quotes from, and work by William McDonough + Partners, Lake|Flato, and others, with quotes from David Johnson. It's called Sustainable Strides in Today's Architecture: "Having [...]

ArchitectWeekly has wrapped up its architect of the week series by honoring our founder. Here's an excerpt-- It's that time of the week where we sit back and value the work of one inspirational architect deemed our 'Architect of the Week.' This week the coveted spot goes to William McDonough. William is a American architect born [...]

The article includes the voices of William McDonough, Ray Kappe, Glen Small, and others on the history of sustainable architecture. Here's an excerpt-- Few architects today design without sustainability in mind. Yet for several decades in the last century, this wasn’t always the case. To tell the story of sustainable architecture today we venture first to [...]

Here's an excerpt-- In the fall of 2008, Steve Zornetzer, the associate center director of NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, found himself in Houston with a problem. Ames was three months in on its plans for a new office building, and Zornetzer had just scrapped the entire design. "It was a building that [...]

Here's an excerpt of the GreenBiz story by Joel Makower: The venerable and rigorous Cradle to Cradle (C2C) Certified program entered a new era January 1, with a major revision that encourages continuous improvement. That's not the only major change: The program also added the first third-party assesser, other than ones affiliated with the originators of the [...]

The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is the eagerly awaited follow-up to Cradle to Cradle, one of the most consequential ecological manifestos of our time. Evocative and provocative as ever, William McDonough and Michael Braungart imagine how human society might, at last, begin to rewrite its role in the history of the natural world. [...]