Buildings That Can Breathe
Newsweek, August, 2008
A green designer says we need to save energy by making our architecture more efficient.
Fareed Zakaria
Architect William McDonough draws his green-building techniques from the world around him. Before attending architecture school at Yale, he worked on a redevelopment project in Jordan and observed the clever way the Bedouins’ tents utilized natural materials to protect them from the elements. His most ambitious project, a redevelopment of the Ford Motors complex in Dearborn, Mich., incorporates a “living roof” that features nearly 11 acres of vegetation to purify storm water and provide natural air conditioning. NEWSWEEK’s Fareed Zakaria spoke to him about energy efficiency in architecture, the future of environmental design and the possibility of eliminating...
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