Ongoing and Recent
Boards and Affiliations
Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, Board of Directors, 2019 - Present
Dean's Advisory Council, College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, 2018 - Present
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 -2018
Design Futures Council, Senior Fellow, Washington DC, 2008 - Present
Notable Recognition
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
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)
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
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
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~
San Francisco Federal Savings & Loan Headuarters, 88 Kearny - Numerous AIA, IIDA and Graphic Design Awards, 1988
Previous Boards and Affiliations
SPUR (San Francisco Planning + Urban Research Association), Board Member. 2012 - 2016
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
Academic Lectures and Talks
Yale University, Paul Rudolph Lecture, Fall 2016, “Implicit Social Action”
Stanford University, AIA-Student Research Forum, “Narrative, Practice + Research”, 2016
Kansas State University, AIA Central Regional States, “Architecture as Infrastructure”, 2016
Berkeley City Club Conservancy (BC3 @ the Julia Morgan’s City Club Building), Lecture Series, Women Speak: Four Architects on Design and Urbanism, 2016
Notable Design Competition Juries
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
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
Vertical Cities Asia, Urban Harvest Design Competition 2013, National University of Singapore, Jury Chair
http://www.verticalcitiesasia.com/archive/archive-2013.html
San Francisco Transbay Tower and Terminal International Design Competition, San Francisco CA, 2007
Forums and Panel Discussions
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
AIA Design Awards Jury Service
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
2016 AIA Tennessee Design Awards Jury
2014 AIA Utah Annual Conference, Salt Lake City
Keynote Speaker
2013 AIA Philadelphia Design Awards Jury
2012 Boston Society of Architecture and Harvard GSD
Loeb Fellowship Lecturer
2011 National AIA Honor Awards and 25-Year Award Juror,
Washington DC
2010 San Antonio, Texas AIA Design Awards Jury
and Keynote Lecturer
2009 Pittsburgh AIA, Design Awards Jury Chair
1998 National AIA Honor Awards and 25-Year Award Juror,
Washington DC
1980 -1993 Additional AIA Juries: New York, Arizona, Iowa,
North Carolina, Chicago, and Boston