GORDON GILL is founding partner of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago. Their work emphasizes a holistic approach to performance-based design and achieving energy independence through the harnessing of natural forces on site, exemplifying Gill’s philosophy that architecture must strike a balance with its global environmental context. Recent projects include Pearl River Tower (with SOM), the world’s first net zero-energy skyscraper and the world’s first large-scale positive energy building, Masdar Headquarters.

Oppositions and Opportunity
Gordon Gill

Gordon Gill in conversation with inter·punct. Gill is one of the world’s foremost experts on performance based architecture. From the world’s tallest buildings to sustainable communities, his work is driven by the philosophy of Form Follows Performance. Read the interview on the inter·punct website.

inter·punct is a journal for architecture founded by students at CMU and supported by the Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture.