William Clay Ford Jr.

• 
  Think Green | Metropolis Magazine | August/September... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/10/2002    Last Visited: 2/10/2002  

  "This is what the twentieth century believed to be success in industry," Tim O'Brien, director of environmental quality at Ford Motor Company, told attendees at the "EnvironDesign" conference as a grim image of Ford's antiquated Rouge River manufacturing plant fiashed onto the screen behind him.
  ...
  For O'Brien--and for Ford--the presentation was not a mea culpa, but a declaration of intent: "And this is clearly what the twenty-first century is no longer willing to accept."
  ...
  "We want William Clay Ford to be the father of the disassembly line."
  
  As an architect McDonough has always worked in concert with sun and soil.Born in Tokyo in 1951, the son of an American business executive, McDonough's first independent project was the 1973 Grant House, the first solar-heated home in Ireland, which he designed during his first year of graduate school at Yale.After completing his master's there in 1976, he worked on small- and medium-scale projects in New York, searching for true north on the rooftops of Manhattan to bring maximum light to his structures.

• 
  Think Green | Metropolis Magazine | August/September... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/19/2001    Last Visited: 5/20/2004  

  Along with his architectural project for Ford, McDonough and Braungart are working with the automaker and its chairman, William Clay Ford Jr.--great-grandson of company founder Henry Ford--to reinvent the way automobiles will be manufactured and recycled in the twenty-first century.
  ...
  "We want William Clay Ford to be the father of the disassembly line."
  
  As an architect McDonough has always worked in concert with sun and soil.Born in Tokyo in 1951, the son of an American business executive, McDonough's first independent project was the 1973 Grant House, the first solar-heated home in Ireland, which he designed during his first year of graduate school at Yale.After completing his master's there in 1976, he worked on small- and medium-scale projects in New York, searching for true north on the rooftops of Manhattan to bring maximum light to his structures.

Page: