High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! William Andrews McDonough is an American architect and founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, and co-founder of McDonough Braungart Design Chemistry (MBDC) with German chemist Michael Braungart. McDonough's career is focused on designing environmentally sustainable buildings and transforming industrial manufacturing processes. McDonough was born in Tokyo, the son of an American Seagram's executive, and trained at Dartmouth College and Yale University.