Will McDonough
Will McDonough
William "Will" McDonoughwas an American sportswriter for the Boston Globe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth6 July 1935
CountryUnited States of America
strange frank
It's going to sound strange probably. But I really like Frank Gehry's works.
trying dialogue
I'd rather have that dialogue right now than only the other one, which is starting at such a basic level, that we start rearranging stuff on the Titanic, trying to be less bad with ordinary stuff.
mind architecture breathe
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things.
nice responsibility abundance
It would be nice if all that exuberance and abundance was connected to a deep ethos of planetary responsibility.
thinking diversity people
I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.
atmosphere problem natural
We have carbon in the atmosphere. That is a material in the wrong place problem. It's just like what I said about the lead. Lead in the biosphere is not good. Carbon in the atmosphere (over natural levels) is a problem.
blow
If you don't like carbon, if you want to be zero carbon, then you might as well shoot yourself, dry up and blow away because you are carbon.
design firsts intention
Design is the first signal of human intention.
tree atmosphere good-things
Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.
men energy architecture
Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture,'
home moon together-we-can
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.
jobs business practice
Peter Drucker has pointed out that it is a manager's job to "do things right." It is an executive's job to make sure "the right things" get done. Even the most rigorous eco-efficient business paradigm does not challenge basic practices and methods: a shoe, building, factory, car, or shampoo can remain fundamentally ill-designed even as the materials and processes involved in its manufacture become more "efficient."
people problem
The problem I have with carbon as a bad thing issue, is that people go out and say they want to be zero carbon. You see it everywhere.
moving games chess-pieces
If you don't have an end game of something delightful, you're just moving chess pieces around.