2006 colloquium on the environment
William McDonough Keynote Speaker for 2006 Colloquium on the Environment
William McDonough, internationally renowned designer and leader in environmental design, will be the keynote speaker for the upcoming 3rd Annual Colloquium on the Environment.
The event is scheduled for Monday April 24, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Auditorium on the Penn State University Park campus. The annual event is sponsored by the Penn State Institutes of the Environment and the Penn State Finance and Business Environmental Stewardship Strategy. Penn State's Department of Landscape Architecture also is providing support for this year's event.
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The event is free and open to the public. For more information contact Patricia Craig (telephone: 814.863-0037; e-mail plc103@psu.edu) or Paul Ruskin (telelphone: 814.863.9620; email: pdr2@psu.edu).
McDonough Short Bio:
William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a "Hero for the Planet" in 1999, stating that "his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that—in demonstrable and practical ways—is changing the design of the world." He also was awarded the 2004 National Design Award in the field of environmental design by the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, widely considered the nation’s highest design honor.
McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad. He is also the cofounder and principal, with German chemist Michael Braungart, of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC), which employs a comprehensive Cradle to Cradle design protocol to chemical benchmarking, supply-chain integration, energy and materials assessment, clean-production qualification, and sustainability issue management and optimization.
McDonough’s leadership in sustainable development is recognized widely, both in the U.S. and internationally, and he has written and lectured extensively on his design philosophy and practice. He was commissioned in 1991 to write The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability as guidelines for the City of Hannover’s EXPO 2000, and in 1993 to give the Centennial Sermon at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. More recently, Mr. McDonough and Michael Braungart co-authored Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, published in 2002 by North Point Press. The two were also the subject of a 2001 documentary video, The Next Industrial Revolution, from Earthome Productions.
McDonough is a Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture and an Alumni Research Professor and Professor of Business Administration in the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia. He also is a Consulting Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University.
McDonough is principal of MBDC, a product and systems development firm assisting prominent client companies in designing profitable and environmentally intelligent solutions. He is also the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design, an internationally recognized design firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and planning in the U.S. and abroad.
A recognized leader in sustainable design and development, Mr. McDonough writes and speaks extensively on his design philosophy and practice. His vision of the hopeful, positive, and inspiring possibilities of an environmentally and economically intelligent future by design has made him a highly sought-after speaker for a wide range of audiences both internationally and in the U.S.