This not only aids the energy but also lessens the dependency of buildings on the local infrastructure.
In order to make sustainable buildings with less energy and more efficiency he designs buildings in such a way that they absorb more and more energy from natural resources including sunlight, wind and geothermal conditions thus producing energy for projects on the respective sites.
During the course of some recent years, he has adopted a new design approach of producing energy “on site”. Since the major goal for all of his projects is to achieve the environmental sustainability so he puts so much attention to location, climate, geographical, geological, cultural, and social influences of site. He focuses majorly on the physical features of each of his design. With evolution in the world of technology he is up to the integration of regional techniques and industrial methods for his designs. Smith has great passion for the use of vernacular and indigenous forms and compositions and this can be seen in his work as well. The name of the firm set up by Adrian Smith is Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture (AS+GG) which focuses majorly on providing a platform to work for high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable buildings on international level. Smith has great interest in making tall buildings and remarks that such buildings act as landmarks and leave a great influence on their surroundings. Smith got retirement from the firm three years earlier than the official time and took a ten years lease on an office and gathered a number of colleagues to work with and began another phase of his career. The firm SOM was famous for producing corporate projects mostly but Burj Khalifa was an exception. He started designing Burj Khalifa while he was still attached with that firm. In 1960s Smith started working at a firm SOM as a young architect. In 2013, Smith was presented with an Honorary Doctorate of Letters degree from Texas A&M university. He graduated in 1969 from the University of Illinois, Chicago College of Architecture and Arts. Leaving his graduation midway, Smith started working for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM) in 1967. Smith attended Texas A&M University, pursuing a Bachelor of Architecture and was simultaneously involved with the Corps of Cadets.
His keen interest in drawing made him study architecture. At the age of 4, his family moved to Southern California where he grew up. Smith was born on August 19, 1944, in Chicago, Illinois.
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