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Allison Grace Williams, FAIA Architect + Provocative Design Consultant
Practicing architecture for over 35 years, Williams has amassed a portfolio of work that spans civic, corporate and cultural facilities, and places for research, nationally and internationally. At Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Perkins+Will, and with AECOM, the engineering company, Williams’ inventive, intuitive talent, collaborative drive and interdisciplinary design approach have generated authentic, relevant buildings and places that bridge between culture, technology and the environment. Beyond a portfolio of award-winning buildings accomplished in these high caliber team-based practices, Williams’ leadership has defined memorable urban spaces that poetically convey the values and traditions of the audience and place.
Williams established her independent design practice AGWms_studio in 2017.
In addition to practice Williams is an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University teaching design studios periodically and is frequently invited to lecture at U.S. schools of architecture. In 2016, she delivered the Paul Rudolph Lecture at Yale University (“Implicit Social Action”), chaired the AIA Central Regional States Design Awards and delivered a keynote Conference lecture (“Architecture as Infrastructure”), and delivered the keynote address for the AIA Student Research Forum at Stanford (“Research, Narrative + Practice”). Also in 2016, Williams juried the World War One Memorial Competition in Washington DC, and for the fourth time, juried Architecture at Zero, a design competition jointly sponsored by the AIA and PG&E. Williams will chair the 2017-2019 Visiting Committee for the Harvard Graduate School of Design presenting to the Harvard Board of Overseers and is currently on the Board of Directors for Places Journal.
A Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Allison earned her Master of Architecture and a B.A. in the Practice of Art, at the University of California, Berkeley and was elevated to Fellowship in the American Institute of Architects in 1997. Williams was honored in 2015 as University of California’s College of Environmental Design Distinguished Alumnus.