Jun 18, 2009

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough - vantagepoint - green architecture | Fast Company Green architect William McDonough has been hailed as a water-walking visionary. The truth is far more complicated. The paparazzi should have been hiding in the hedges that evening. Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn, John Mayer, and some 50 other Hollywood and media types were gathered in the Malibu home of one of L.A.’s biggest power brokers, Universal Studios president Ron Meyer, and his wife, Kelly. The guest of honor at this 2005 dinner party: William McDonough. “He is,” Kelly Meyer tells me later, “the environmental architect of our time.”

Green Guru Gone Wrong: William McDonough - vantagepoint - green architecture | Fast Company

Green architect William McDonough has been hailed as a water-walking visionary. The truth is far more complicated.


The paparazzi should have been hiding in the hedges that evening. Cindy Crawford, Goldie Hawn, John Mayer, and some 50 other Hollywood and media types were gathered in the Malibu home of one of L.A.’s biggest power brokers, Universal Studios president Ron Meyer, and his wife, Kelly. The guest of honor at this 2005 dinner party: William McDonough. “He is,” Kelly Meyer tells me later, “the environmental architect of our time.”