WILLIAM MCDONOUGH + PARTNERS - Key Persons
Alastair Reilly brings more than twenty years of architectural and urban planning experience. His focus on research informed design allows him to find innovative sustainable solutions to complex building types. He leads design on WM+P's most innovative sustainable projects, including NASA's Sustainability Base, Google Master planning and workplace strategies, VMware's Corporate Campus, and is involved in a range of design initiatives globally including Park 20I20 in the Netherlands.
Through advanced technology, research and overarching sustainable principles, Alastair brings to bear added financial and ecological value to global projects. He aims to create progressive, eco-effective architecture through a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach. His experience includes large-scale, high-rise and mixed-use urban developments, campus workplace, hospitality and residential projects. He has also taught sustainable architecture at Catholic University on their entry into the DOE's Solar Decathlon Competition, and advised corporate leaders and business groups including P&G and Google on sustainable strategies. Alastair has extensive project management experience in commercial base building. His background in construction enables him to develop unique design criteria into buildable architecture.
Job Titles:
- Director of Visual Communications
Celeste has an extensive background in Cradle to Cradle Design™ and sustainable design, working directly with William McDonough on his speaking engagements and presentations. She manages William McDonough + Partners' graphics and branding as well as provides graphic support for client reports and deliverables. Prior to WM+P, she worked for Philadelphia-based sustainable architecture firms as a Senior Graphic Designer and Communications Coordinator for over 15 years. Celeste graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Graphic Design from Drexel University
John is a Director at William McDonough + Partners, where he has practiced for over twenty two years. He works closely with William McDonough on the design of commercial, institutional, and residential projects, many of which have earned awards for the firm.
John's project experience covers a wide range of scales throughout the globe, from small single family home prototypes in the United States to factories in India and large community designs in China. John's unique combination of talents has played a crucial role in shaping the firm's transformation of land-planning and development processes. He has led the day to day design of several large-scale commercial projects abroad. The common thread to this body of work has been devotion to McDonough's Hannover Principles and the Cradle to Cradle Design™ Framework.
Focusing on enhancing human experience while seeking endless benefit for natural ecologies, José's design leadership spans over twenty years of professional practice in the realization of diverse typologies at multiple scales that include award-winning architectural and urban design projects throughout the U.S. and Europe. As Design Director, his ability to lead teams towards synthesizing and materializing primary concepts into unique, sensitive and sustainable design solutions that embody a project's vision, principles and goals while integrating site, form, and systems has led to many successful collaborations.
Working closely with clients and project teams, José employs a collaborative and multi-disciplinary approach that explores relationships between form and energy, architecture and landscape, and culture and nature while also advancing and developing the role of Cradle to Cradle Circular Economy Design within the built environment through the integration of healthy material protocols, design for disassembly strategies and flexible modular systems. Most notably, José has led the design and realization of nine innovative buildings at Park 20l20 in the Netherlands, the first Cradle to Cradle-inspired development implementing Circular Economy Design strategies. Additionally, José has taught design studios at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, contributes to and produces published articles, and speaks publicly on behalf of the office on issues around sustainability and circularity.
Having supported WM+P in various capacities over the last 25+ years, Roger serves as a Director and manages architectural projects. Additionally, he oversees the firm's efforts to promote building products that meet Cradle to Cradle® criteria for human and ecological health.
Roger has led many groundbreaking projects well known in the field of sustainable architecture, including Herman Miller's "Greenhouse" Factory, the Oberlin College Environmental Studies Center, and the Ford Motor Company Rouge Truck Plant, featuring the world's largest green roof at the time of its completion.
Recently completed buildings include multiple factories and a R&D center for Hero MotoCorp in South Asia, and the Southside Soapbox factory in Chicago for Method Home. These buildings incorporate rooftop food production at scale, ranging from experimental hydroponic greenhouses to a commercially viable 75,000 sq. ft. agriculture facility. Through his work at William McDonough + Partners, Roger has championed food production as an important component for a regenerative planet. He has worked with the Green Roofs for Healthy Cities organization over many years to develop training courses and exams for the Green Roof Professional certification.