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Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

William McDonough

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William McDonough
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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William Andrews McDonough
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Our concept of eco-effectiveness means working on the right things - on the right products and services and systems - instead of making the wrong things less bad. Once you are doing the right things, then doing them right, with the help of efficiency among other tools, makes perfect sense.
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If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.
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Designers are inherently optimistic people who try to make the world a better place
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We achieved our mission to the moon. Let's look home from that lofty perch and reimagine our mission on Earth - that is what we need to do here. Together, we can upcycle everything. The world will be better for our positive visions and actions.
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Sustainability takes forever. And that's the point.
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It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
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Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.
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You need that same creative force that exists in a building like Disney [Walt Disney Concert Hall] to actually tackle that most prosaic of problems.
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So when you see a regulation against lead, because lead is a bad in a regulators mind, what does that mean? You are not telling us what is good, you are just tell us what you don't want, not what you do want.
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If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.
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