Stans Museum of Life and the Environment’s

Distinguished Design Team

To ensure plans for Stans Museum of Life and the Environment optimized its potential to create new learning opportunities, the process of designing concepts was purposely collaborative.  Rather than just create a “black box” in which an exhibit would be inserted, MLE’s architect, landscape architect and exhibition designer were engaged as a team to explore how the building, grounds, and interpretive content could work together to illustrate its core people and place themes.  The resulting concepts for Stans Museum of Life and the Environment were completed in 2002 and were received with great enthusiasm by the Culture & Heritage Museums members and the public.  Design development that will lead to construction plans is anticipated to be underway in 2006.

Stans Museum of Life and the Environment architect William McDonough is an internationally renowned designer and one of the primary proponents and shapers of what he calls “The Next Industrial Revolution.”

In 1999 Time magazine recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet” stating “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that – in demonstrable and practical ways – is changing the design of the world.” McDonough is the founding principal of William McDonough + Partners, Architecture and Community Design, an internationally recognized firm practicing ecologically, socially, and economically intelligent architecture and community design in the U. S. and abroad.

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