Michael Green

“We have an ethic that the Earth grows our food, and we need to move to an ethic in this century that the Earth should grow our homes.” When architect Michael Green delivered those words at a 2012 TED Talk, making the case for building wooden skyscrapers, it seeded an idea in the minds of architects all over North America. Since then, the mass timber revolution—with Green at its vanguard—has helped transform the construction industry, sparked new design trends, reshaped how we think about forestry and forest-based economies, and most exciting of all, opened up new possibilities for how we build and why we do it. Green’s firm, Michael Green Architecture, …has completed some of the world’s most significant timber buildings and earned more than 50 international awards for design excellence. This year, METROPOLIS is proud to recognize Michael Green with our inaugural Planet Positive Visionary Award