Lecture:
Green products
18:15h
Day One, Tuesday 09 September
Collegium Artisticum, Sarajevo

 

Award-winning architect, industrial designer, and author who specializes in environmentally appropriate systems and advanced building technologies internationally. He consults on zero energy/zero carbon energy buildings and has designed a wide range of structures and objects including offices, airports, galleries, multi-media environments, resort buildings, multifamily residences, manufactured housing, shops, furniture, exhibits, jewellery, and custom residences. McDonough believes that traditional design and modern design—nature and science—can be advantageously synthesized, and that new types of buildings and a broad range of technologies will accordingly emerge. He has published over 80 articles and white papers and two books on architecture, energy, and design. Long an active artistic collaborator, he has also exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, and worked with painters, sculptors, writers, designers, filmmakers, and scientists, notably award-winning author Tom Wolfe, industrial designer Hartmut Esslinger, lighting designer Howard Brandston, and fashion designer Steven Sprouse. In the field of energy research McDonough has collaborated with New York State’s Energy Research and Development Authority in the development of an award-winning zero energy/zero carbon footprint air conditioning system, and is currently working with industry professionals on the development of advanced lighting and high-value/high-production zero energy/zero carbon agricultural systems. Educated at the University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Pennsylvania, and a cofounder of the experimental Bamboo Research Initiative at Rhode Island School of Design, McDonough has taught and lectured internationally. He has also designed and built e-House, a net zero-energy/zero carbon Design and Building Science Laboratory, a house the international press has termed “the most sustainable building in the world” having “the coolest rooms on the planet".

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