94-02-25 Environmental Activist/Architect William McDonough to Speak at U.Va. March 7

REPORTERS PLEASE NOTE:  William McDonough will be in
Charlottesville March 5-7.  After his March 7 lecture, he will meet
with a group of architecture and Darden School business students to
discuss one of his current projects, a "zero emissions" industrial
project near Seattle.  To arrange an interview or to attend the
session with students contact Richard Collins at the U.Va.
Institute for Environmental Negotiation at (804) 924-1970 or Bob
Brickhouse in the U.Va. News Office at 924-7116.

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST/ARCHITECT WILLIAM MCDONOUGH
TO SPEAK AT U.VA. MARCH 7

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 25 -- New York architect William
McDonough, an internationally known activist and innovator who
urges the architecture and design fields to take on greater
environmental responsibility, will give a public lecture at the
University School of Architecture on Monday, March 7.
     McDonough, head of the American Institute of Architects'
Committee on the Environment and author of the widely discussed
"Hannover Principles" for environmentally conscious building and
design, will speak at noon in Room 153 Campbell Hall.  The talk,
part of an architecture school series in celebration of Jefferson's
250th birthday, is open to the public and titled "Jefferson:  A
Declaration of Interdependence."
     McDonough has been called a visionary and compared as a
socially conscious gadfly to activist Ralph Nader for insisting
that architects and urban designers take into account such factors
as the industrial world's over-reliance on fossil fuels and the
destruction of forests.  His own work has ranged from improving
unhealthy conditions for office workers to helping design a self-
sufficient contemporary Native American village.
     His Hannover Principles, established for the city of Hannover,
Germany, which is hosting a world's fair for the year 2000, urge
use of alternative building technologies to promote a sustainable
environment and to bring human designs into harmony with nature.
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                                                February 24, 1994


[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Fri, 25 Feb 94 10:15:13 EST]