Writings
- ‘Upcycling’ business: honouring nature while meeting society’s needs (2013)
- A 21st Century View of Architectural Graphic Standards (2005)
- A Boat for Thoreau (1997)
- A Building Like a Tree, a Campus Like a Forest (2002)
- A Centennial Sermon: Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things (1993)
- A Field of Dreams (2003)
- A New Era for Manufacturing (2004)
- A New Geography of Hope (2002)
- Address to the Woods Hole Symposium (2003)
- Between Technology and Culture (2003)
- Beyond Efficiency (2001)
- Beyond the Triple Bottom Line (2002)
- Building Cities that Celebrate Life (2014)
- Building for a Better World and Making People Smile (2014)
- Buildings Like Trees, Cities Like Forests (2002)
- Carbon Is Not The Enemy (2016)
- Celebrating Human Artifice (2003)
- Clean Machine (2014)
- Climate change and circular economy take centre stage at Davos (2014)
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (2002)
- Dear Conscious Choice (2002)
- Design for the Triple Top Line (2002)
- Designing cities and factories with urban agriculture in mind (2014)
- Designing The City Of Tomorrow (2017)
- Driving sustainable transformation via the power of design (2013)
- Earth Days (2013)
- Fashion is a Verb (2015)
- Foreword to the Chinese Edition of Cradle to Cradle (2003)
- Foreword: Leading Change Toward Sustainability (2003)
- Foreword: Second Nature Urban Agriculture (2014)
- Foreword: The Natural Advantage of Nations (2004)
- From Principles to Practices (2003)
- Hope and Human Enterprise (2001)
- How Much Can I Give for What I Get? (2002)
- Investing in Innovation for the Common Good (2015)
- Let’s save ‘endangered technical species’ (2013)
- Principles, Practices and Sustainable Design (2003)
- Redefining Green (2002)
- Regulation and Re-design (2003)
- Something Lived, Something Dreamed (2003)
- The 1.4 billion pound pet-stained global menace (2013)
- The Cradle-to-Cradle Alternative (2004)
- The Elephant in the Living Room (2004)
- The Extravagant Gesture (2001)
- The Future of Small-Scale Wind Power (2014)
- The Guardian Reborn (2002)
- The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability (1992)
- The Living City (2002)
- The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance (2013)
- Toward a 21st Century Renaissance (2003)
- Toward a Future of Energy Effectiveness (2003)
- Toward a Sustaining Architecture for the 21st Century (2003)
- Waging Peace With Intelligent Design (2002)
Milestones
- “Waste=Food” documentary released in Europe
- “Industrial Revolution Take Two,” a profile of McDonough, is published in Vanity Fair
- 2016 USGBC Leadership Award
- Ambassador J. William Middendorf ll Award
- American University School of International Service
- Aspect Communications World Headquarters
- Benjamin Botwinick Prize for Ethical Practice in the Professions
- Biological Nutrient Pavilion (Parkcafé Groen), Park 20|20
- Bluewater, Park 20|20
- Bosch Siemens is the first building to open at Park 20|20
- C&A Announces First Cradle to Cradle Certified™ GOLD T-Shirts in Partnership with MBDC and McDonough Innovation
- C&A launches Cradle to Cradle Certified™ Gold-level jeans developed with McDonough Innovation and MBDC
- Cradle to Cradle Day
- Cradle to Cradle released as part of the Penguin Patterns of Life series
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things is published
- DesignTex introduces the William McDonough Collection of Climatex® Lifecycle™ textiles
- Dropbox Headquarters Opens
- Ecourban 22@
- Esquire magazine publishes “The Future of Design: Design for Living,” by McDonough
- Fashion for Good Launches in Partnership with McDonough Innovation
- Fashion for Good, co-founded by William McDonough, opens museum in Amsterdam
- FIFPro world headquarters opens at Park 20|20
- Ford Rouge revitalization and landscape master plan is completed
- Ford Truck Plant
- Fox Vakanties, Park 20|20
- Frito-Lay Jim Rich Service Center & Offices
- Fuller Theological Seminary David Allan Hubbard Library
- Gap’s new headquarters opens (currently home to YouTube)
- Herman Miller’s Greenhouse opens
- Hero Global Center for Innovation and Technology Opens
- Hero MotoCorp’s Garden Factory in Neemrana opens
- IBM Corporate Offices, Riekerpolder
- ICEhouse is reassembled in the Netherlands
- ICEhouse is unveiled in Davos
- ICEhouse returns to Davos
- Isola
- Karachi School for Business & Leadership
- MBDC is established
- McDonough becomes a charter member of the U.S. Green Building Council
- McDonough becomes a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects
- McDonough becomes an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and an honorary member of ASLA
- McDonough becomes the first and only individual to receive the U.S. Presidential Award for Sustainable Development
- McDonough co-founds GreenBlue
- McDonough delivers “A Centennial Sermon: Design, Ecology, Ethics and the Making of Things” at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City
- McDonough designs the first “green office” in New York, for the Environmental Defense Fund
- McDonough establishes his architecture firm in New York
- McDonough Innovation Presents the ICE Hub during COP26 in Glasgow
- McDonough is a founding member of the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment
- McDonough is appointed Special Advisor to President Clinton (1993-1996) and the Presidential Council of Sustainable Development
- McDonough is awarded the Rockwool Prize from the Danish Architecture Center
- McDonough is named a “Hero for the Planet” by Time magazine and “Designer of the Year” by Interiors magazine
- McDonough is the official representative of the American Institute of Architects at the Earth Summits in Rio de Janeiro and New York
- McDonough keynotes the AIA National Convention
- McDonough keynotes the U.S. Green Building Council’s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo
- McDonough receives I.D. Forty Design Award from I.D. magazine
- McDonough’s Warsaw Tower design is a cartoon in The New Yorker
- McDonough’s Warsaw Tower design is on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal
- Method Southside Soapbox Grand Opening in Chicago
- NASA Sustainability Base grand opening
- National Design Award
- National Wildlife Federation Conservation Award
- Nike European Headquarters
- Plantronics, Park 20|20
- Rachel Carson Environmental Award
- Ralph Lauren Achieves Cradle to Cradle Certified® for their Iconic Cashmere Sweater
- Ralph Lauren Partners with McDonough Innovation on their Circular Strategy
- Scientific American publishes “Designing the City of Tomorrow” by William McDonough
- Shaw Contract relaunches A Walk in the Garden
- Stanford University Libraries acquire the archives of William McDonough
- Technical Nutrient Pavilion, Park 20|20
- The Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin College opens
- The Atlantic publishes “The NEXT Industrial Revolution” by McDonough with Michael Braungart
- The Bison Courtyard at Bear Street
- The Circulars 2017 Winner of The Fortune Award for Circular Economy Leadership
- The non profit Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute is established
- The Upcycle: Beyond Sustainability—Designing for Abundance is released
- U.S. EPA awards McDonough the 21st Century Visionary Science Leadership Award
- U.S. EPA Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award
- UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay
- United Nations’ Sustainable Development Working Group
- University of Michigan School of Natural Resources & Environment
- Visitor Center, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest
- VMware Corporate Campus
- While a graduate student at Yale, William McDonough builds the first solar heated house in Ireland
- William McDonough & Michael Braungart honored with WorldGBC Award
- William McDonough Accelerates Circular Economy During World Economic Forum
- William McDonough Addresses Fortune’s Global Sustainability Forum
- William McDonough Announces a New Language of Carbon
- William McDonough Announces The Five Goods
- William McDonough Architects authors “The Hannover Principles: Design for Sustainability”
- William McDonough Attends Another Successful WEF Davos Gathering
- William McDonough Attends COP27
- William McDonough Attends the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2022
- William McDonough Day
- William McDonough Engages and Leads Circular Economy Conversations at World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
- William McDonough gives Closing Plenary at Greenbuild
- William McDonough Gives G20 Opening Speeches on the Circular Carbon Economy
- William McDonough Gives Keynote Fireside Chat at Sustainable Brands 2022
- William McDonough graduates from Dartmouth College
- William McDonough headlines The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Disruptive Innovation Festival (DIF) on Safe & Circular: Cradle to Cradle Design™ for the Circular Economy
- William McDonough is Dean of the School of Architecture at the University of Virginia
- William McDonough joins Circulate Capital advisory board
- William McDonough keynotes Emerson Collective’s Do-Fest at Cavallo Point entitled Cradle to Cradle Oceans
- William McDonough keynotes GreenBiz 2018
- William McDonough keynotes Sustainable Brands 2017 in Detroit
- William McDonough keynotes SXSW Eco
- William McDonough Launches The Circular Carbon Economy During COP 25
- William McDonough named by Fortune Magazine as one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders
- William McDonough presents “Towards a New Language of Luxury” at the New York Times International Luxury Conference
- William McDonough receives 2017 Hanley Award
- William McDonough Sets A New Framework for Plastics and Packaging at Sustainable Brands
- William McDonough speaks at the 2017 Copenhagen Fashion Summit
- William McDonough Speaks at the 2022 Concordia Annual Summit
- William McDonough speaks at the last CGI Annual Meeting
- William McDonough speaks on the National Mall for Earth Day
- Woods Hole Research Center Gilman Ordway Campus
- World Economic Forum, China
- World Economic Forum, Davos
