Architect and Industrial Designer, Michael McDonough
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Michael McDonough
Architect, Industrial Designer
BIO
Michael McDonough, award-winning architect and industrial designer, consults worldwide on corporate futurism, personal environments, and product development. His design philosophy is rooted in systems convergence theory, synthesizing traditional and modern design, emphasizing new materials and sustainable technologies.
Since the founding of his architecture and design firm in 1984, he has completed commercial spaces such as galleries, showrooms, public buildings, shops, and exhibits, as well as residential projects, including homes and lofts throughout the United States and Europe.
As an architect, McDonough has designed facilities and consulted for such companies as Lufthansa German Airlines, Frogdesign, Inc., Frankfurt Airport Authority, Aveda Corporation, Stephen Sprouse Fashion, and Seaside Community Development Corporation; as well as designed over 50 private residences, exhibitions, and conceptual projects.
As an industrial designer, his collections include tabletop objects, jewelry, and furniture. He designed the McEasy Collection of lounge furniture for ICF Unika Vaev Nienkamper, and Eco-sTuff!, a line of ecological furniture made of 100% post-consumer recycled newspaper. McDonough also developed Engineered Bamboo furniture collections-the first in furniture design history-for Summit Design Studio and Forms+Surfaces.
McDonough has won many awards, including citations from the American Institute of Architects and the Industrial Design Society of America. His work has been exhibited at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Le Muse du Louvre, Holly Solomon Gallery, Gracie Mansion Gallery, White Columns Gallery, Gallery 91, Fashion Institute of Technology, Pacific Design Center, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, Grey Art Gallery, and Art et Industrie. In addition, his work is presently in the permanent collection of the Berlin Museum, Carnegie Mellon University Architectural Archive, the Corning Museum, as well as private collections.
He has lectured internationally on architecture, design, and art. A member of the faculty at New York University from 1978-1981, he has been a visiting critic at the Yale University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Miami, the Casa Malaparte Foundation, and other schools. He co-founded the International Bamboo Design Research Initiative at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. He is a faculty member at Parsons School of Design at the New School in New York, where he has taught since 1984; and is a faculty member at the University of Applied Sciences in Cologne, Germany.
McDonough holds B.A. in English from the University of Massachusetts, and Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was an Editor of VIA. He also completed additional studies in architecture and art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Presently, he is a contributing editor and writer at Metropolitan Home. He has also written on design for The New York Times, Wired, and other publications. Novelist Tom Wolfe, dedicated his controversial book on architecture, From Bauhaus to Our House, to McDonough.
McDonough's first book, Malaparte: A House Like Me was published by Clarkson Potter/Publishers in November 1999.
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