Does anyone know the names of some famous architects who have designed sustainable buildings?

Question

Does anyone know the names of some famous architects who have designed sustainable buildings?

Answer 1

William McDonough & Michael Braungart

http://www.mcdonough.com/cradle_to_cradl...

Answer 2

the only Architects building earth friendly or energy eficient buildings are individuals ,regular architects work on regular principles ,and all of them mix for example the grey water with the sewage ,thus making the sewage water 5 times as much,grey water      should be sa seperate system that goes straight into gardens not sewers .

there are many examples of efficient design but they are all revolutionary and is done by pioneers .

Earhships has a great following check them out

so does Permaculture

the Permaculture designers manual by Bill Mollison,which cost about 40 dollars.

and is the best all round book you can get,on Environmental design,.(tagiari publishing, [e-mail])

some other writers that are on the internet are

david Holmgren

Larry Santoyo

Kirk Hanson

Masanobu Fukuaka has written ,

One-Straw Revolution

The Road Back to Nature

The Natural Way of Farming

http://www.context.org/iclib/ic14/fukuok...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/masanobu_fu...

Simon Henderson

and Bill Molisson.

a representitive of the concept in USA is

Dan Hemenway at [e-mail]

[e-mail]

http://barkingfrogspc.tripod.com/frames....

http://csf.colorado.edu/perma/ypc_catalo... Source(s) I am a permaculture consultant for the department of Ecology for the regional government of Guerrero in Mexico

rbyderule yahoo 360, which has some stuff in English as well as this spaces

http://spaces.msn.com/byderule

Answer 3

I'm not sure what you mean by "sustainable" but if you look at the work of Frank lloyd Wright, I think his designs were way ahead of their time and incorporate nature in their design.