Ongoing and Recent
Boards and Affiliations
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, Board of Directors, 2019 - 2023
Dean's Advisory Council, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 2018 - 2022
Harvard Graduate School of Design, Visiting Committee, Harvard University Board of Overseers, 2012 - 2019
Committee Chair 2017-2019, 2014-2016, Member 2011-2013
Board of Directors,
Places Journal, 2015 - 2018
GSA (Government Administration Services) Design Excellence Peer Review Board,
Washington DC, 1998 - Present
Design Futures Council, Senior Fellow, Washington DC, 2008 - Present
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Notable Recognition
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2020 - 50 Women Rocking the World of Architecture
Recognized as One of Fifty influential women busy proving that the future (of architecture) is female.*
2020 - Fifty Women Rock Architecture
*Corrections pending
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2020 - Trailblazing Architects Inspire Future Design Leaders (Written by SOM)
One of 365 biographies featured in the online digital book ARCHITETTE = WOMEN ARCHITECTS / • Here We Are! Released to coincide with the opening of Biennale Achitecttura in Venice 2018 presents award winning female architects as well as lesser-known, with inspirational profiles working in the profession. (Williams' profile: page.619)
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2017 - Changing Culture Exhibition - Excellent Black Architects
A curated exhibition of international black architects at theNational London Architecture Gallery as part of the 2017 London Festival of Architecture 2017. Williams is 1 of 10 architects interviewed and whose work was exhibited.
2016 - Architizer Journal
Recognized as 1 of 26 Women who changed Architecture, 2016, From A to Zaha_26 Women Who Changed Architecture
2015 - Distinguished Alumnus, Architecture, College of Environmental Design, 2015
University of California Berkeley, http://ced.berkeley.edu/ced/alumni-friends/distinguished-alumni-award/alumni-2015/
2014 - Most Influential Women, San Francisco Business Journal, 2014 and Forever Influential, 2018
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/gallery/26271?s=image_gallery&img_no=142
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Architectural Design Awards
Progressive Architecture Award – Calexico Port of Entry, Calexico CA, 2013
R&D Laboratory of the Year Award – CREATE, Singapore (Greenmark Platinum Laboratory), 2013
Perkins+Will Biennale Design Awards, Princess Nora Abdulrahman University for Women, Riyadh Saudi Arabia, 2011
Honor Award of Excellence, AIA Pittsburgh, The August Wilson Center, Pittsburgh PA, 2010
AIA San Francisco Chapter, Merit Award, Calexico Port of Entry, Calexico, 2010
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San Francisco International Terminal - Numerous AIA Awards, 2000~
AOL Corporate Headquarters Creative Center 2, Numerous DC and Northern Virginia AIA, IIDA and NAIOP Awards​, 1999~
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San Francisco Federal Savings & Loan Headuarters, 88 Kearny - Numerous AIA, IIDA and Graphic Design Awards, 1988
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Previous Boards and Affiliations
- SPUR (San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association), Board Member. 2012 - 201
- Public Architecture, Member, Board of Directors, 2010-2012, Board Chair
- Corporate Board of Directors, Perkins+Will, Elected-at-Large, 2010 - 2012
- Harvard Design Magazine, Practitioners Advisory Board, 2004 - 2012
- Cathedral School for Boys at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, Board of Directors, 2005 - 2011
- Design Review Committee for Capital Projects, University of California Berkeley, 2003 - 2009
- MoAD (Museum of the African Diaspora), Member, Founding Board of Directors, 2002 - 2005
- The Exploratorium, Board of Trustees, San Francisco, Board of Directors, 1993 - 2003
- Harvard Graduate School of Design, Alumni Council, 1991 -1997
- Architecture California, Editorial Board Member (AIA California Council Quarterly Magazine), 1989 - 1992
- University of California, Berkeley, Alumni Council, 1977 - 1983
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Notable Design Competition Juries
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Architecture at Zero Design Competition, A Competition for Zero Net Energy, Sponsored by the American Institute of Architecture in partnership with PG&E, 2016 - 2019
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World War One Memorial, Competition, 2016, Washington DC, U.S. World War One Centennial Commission in partnership with The Pritzker Military Museum and Library,
http://www.worldwar-1centennial.org/index.php/competition-officials-visible.htm
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Vertical Cities Asia, Urban Harvest Design Competition 2013, National University of Singapore, Jury Chair
http://www.verticalcitiesasia.com/archive/archive-2013.html
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San Francisco Transbay Tower and Terminal International Design Competition, San Francisco CA, 2007
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Forums and Panel Discussions
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Design with a Conscience, Overlapping Worlds of Automotive and Architectural Design, 2013, Ford Motors and American Institute of Architecture, San Francisco. http://inhabitat.com/design-with-a-conscience/design-with-a-conscience-webcast-ford-aia-1/?extend=1
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture Seminar, 2012 Harvard GSD and National University of Singapore, 2012
Invited Speaker: Emerging Models of Planning Practices, Cities of Learning http://www.akdn.org/Content/1144
International Women’s Forum – Ideas Remaking the World in an Age of Discovery, San Francisco, 2012, The Nexus of Ideas: The World’s Cities, Introductory Presentation and Plenary Moderator http://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-leaders-ideas-remaking-world-140000128.html
SCUP Western Regional Conference, Presenter, International Telecast, 2012, Stanford University, Leadership and Cross-Continent Partnerships, http://www.scup.org/page/regions/pa/2012/proceedings
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AIA Design Awards Jury Service
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2019 - Austin AIA Design Awards Jury, Juror
2019 - Minnesota AIA Design Awards Jury, Juror
2019 - AIA Committee on The Environment COTE
Design Awards Jury
2018 AIA North Western Pacific Regional
Design Awards Jury
2017 Portland AIA Design Awards Jury
2016 AIA Central Regional States Design Awards Jury,
Chair and Keynote Speaker
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2016 AIA Tennessee Design Awards Jury
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2014 AIA Utah Annual Conference, Salt Lake City
Keynote Speaker
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2013 AIA Philadelphia Design Awards Jury
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2012 Boston Society of Architecture and Harvard GSD
Loeb Fellowship Lecturer
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2011 National AIA Honor Awards and 25-Year Award Juror,
Washington DC
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2010 San Antonio, Texas AIA Design Awards Jury
and Keynote Lecturer
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2009 Pittsburgh AIA, Design Awards Jury Chair
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1998 National AIA Honor Awards and 25-Year Award Juror,
Washington DC
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1980 -1993 Additional AIA Juries: New York, Arizona, Iowa,
North Carolina, Chicago, and Boston
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