Jason F. McLennan

Canadian-American architect (born 1973), a prominent figure in the green-building movement and creator of the Living Building Challenge, the field's most demanding regenerative-design standard.

McLennan founded and led the International Living Future Institute and the Cascadia Green Building Council, and runs his own practice, McLennan Design. The Living Building Challenge asks buildings to operate like living systems — net-positive in energy and water and free of harmful materials — pushing sustainability past "less bad" toward genuinely regenerative design.

Role in Fuller's orbit

McLennan carries forward Fuller's design-science conviction that the built environment can be redesigned to do dramatically more with less on behalf of all life. His regenerative standards are a contemporary institutional expression of the ephemeralization ethic at the heart of Fuller's work.

See Also

• David W. Orr (David W. Orr) — ecological-design educator in the same regenerative-design lineage
• William McDonough (William McDonough) — cradle-to-cradle designer in the same movement

Sources

• Jason F. McLennan (source reference) — Zotero People collection (Wikipedia entry)