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Why Our Ancestors Built Round Houses – and Why it Still Makes Sense to Build Round Structures Today | Inhabitat – Sustainable Design Innovation, Eco Architecture, Green Building

Andrew Michler INHABITAT INTERVIEW: Green Archi

tect & Cradle to Cradle Founder William McDonough INHABITAT: What inspired you to write ‘Cradle to Cradle‘ (the book) and launch the Cradle to Cradle system? William McDonough: From an early age, I was fascinated by differing attitudes towards resources. Growing up in Japan and Hong Kong, I was given my first look at complete material cycles, where waste becomes food, and resources […] READ MORE >, inhabitat.com

The old­est forms of indige­nous shel­ter were often round in shape. (Think the South­west USA Hogan, Mon­go­lian Yurt, North Amer­i­can Teepee and the Greek Ten­emos, among others.) Why did our ances­tors choose to build round? Because the ovid…

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