EDUCATION
1987 - Loeb Fellowship
Harvard Graduate School of Design
1976 - Master of Architecture
College of Environmental Design
University of California Berkeley
1972 – Bachelor of Arts, Practice of Art
Department of Art
University of California Berkeley
POSITIONS
AGWms_studio
Founder
2017 to Present
AECOM
2013 to 2017
Vice President, Director of Design
San Francisco Bay Area Region
Perkins+Will
1997 to 2012
Design Principal and Director of Design
(includes Ai, Washington DC and San Francisco
as Design Principal and Firmwide Design Director
Acquired by Perkins+Will in 2005)
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
1980 to 1997
Senior Associate Partner in Design, San Francisco
McCue Boone Tomsick
1976 to 1977 and 1978 to 1980
LICENSES and MEMBERSHIPS
State of California, Licensed Architect
1980 to Present
State of Pennsylvania, Licensed Architect
2006 to Present
LEED Accredited Professional, USGBC
2006 to Present
Lambda Alpha International
Society for Advancement of Land Economics
1997 to Present
National Council of Architectural Registration NCARB - Board Certified
1995 to Present
Member, NOMA
(National Organization of Minority Architects)
1988 to Present
Member, AIA (American Institute of Architects)
1980 to Present
PROFESSIONAL HONORS and AWARDS
2023 - Allison Grace Williams, Architect First
The Kristine Fallon Prize - 2024
International Archive of Women Architects
Awarded to Rebecca Edmonds AIA
The Kristine Fallon Prize 2024
2018 - Recipient
Norma Merrick Sklarek Award in Architecture
Awarded by the AIACC
2015 - Distinguished Alumnus in Architecture
College of Environmental Design
University of California, Berkeley
1987 - National Endowment for the Arts Grant
In support of Harvard GSD Loeb
Fellowship
1997 - Elevated to Fellow, FAIA
American Institute of Architects
1976 - Eisner Prize in Design
The Honorable Mention
University of California, Berkeley
1976 - John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship
(1977 - 1978, Europe and North Africa)
University of California, Berkeley
1973 - Skidmore Owings & Merrill
Graduate Fellowship
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2013 to Present - Stanford University
Adjunct Lecturer/Undergraduate Design Studio
Department of Architecture
Doerr School of Sustainability
College of Civil & Environmental Engineering
2019 - Joseph Esherick
Distinguished Visiting Professor
University of California Berkeley
College of Environmental Design
Graduate Design Studio
1996 - Howard A. Friedman
Distinguished Visiting Professor
University of California Berkeley
College of Environmental Design
Graduate Design Studio
Academic Lectures on Design...including:
- Louisianna State Baton Rouge
- Harvard GSD, University of California,Berkeley
- University of Cincinnati,
- Yale
- Stanford
- University of Pennsylvania
- Michigan
- Southern
- Illinois
- Florida
- Washington University
- Carnegie Mellon
- Georgia Tech
- Virginia Tech
- Chatham