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William A. McDonough (b. 1951 , Tokyo, Japan ) is an American Architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners , whose career is focused on designing environmentally Sustainable buildings and transforming Industrial manufacturing processes. McDonough was born in Tokyo the son of an American Seagram 's executive, and trained at Dartmouth College and Yale University . In 1981 McDonough founded his practice, and his first major commission was the 1984 Environmental Defense Fund Headquarters. According to a profile in Metropolis Magazine , the EDF told him he would be sued if any employees became sick from noxious elements in the construction material; when McDonough asked his suppliers to provide him with a list of chemicals in their products, he was told it was proprietary information. A number of large corporate projects for The Gap , Nike , and Herman Miller , which focused on both a financial and environmental standpoint, led to his commission for a 20 year, US$ 2 billion environmental re-engineering of the Ford Motor Company 's legendary River Rouge Plant in Dearborn, Michigan . The project included rolling out the world's largest extensive "living roof" in October 2002 . The roof of the 1.1 million square foot (100,000 m²) Dearborn truck assembly plant was covered with more than 10 acres (40,000 m²) of Sedum , a low-growing ground cover. {Link without Title} In ". He received a National Design Award from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in 2004 . As of 2005 McDonough is pursuing urban design work for the Chinese government including a model village called Huangbaiyu . PUBLISHED WORKS
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