Brittany L. Williams, AIA LEED AP

Biography: 

Brittany L. Williams, AIA LEED AP BD+C is a registered architect and Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She serves as the Program's Assistant Director of Graduate Architecture. 

As an architect at Gardner Architects LLC, Britt currently focuses on a detailed oriented, multidisciplinary approach to the synthesis of sustainable active and passive strategies at the residential scale. Her work has won AIA awards in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Washington, DC. Her previous professional experience includes a broad range of institutional projects.

Many of Britt’s pedagogical pursuits center on the integration of environmental stewardship in the architectural curriculum. Britt teaches both graduate and undergraduate studios, including coordination of the Integrated Design Studio. She is also the Program's Architect Licensing Advisor. Britt served as a faculty adviser for the University’s winning entry in Solar Decathlon 2011, an international design-build collegiate competition. In 2013, Britt was based at Peking University in Beijing where she acted as the competition manager for Solar Decathlon China 2013.

With collaborators Lindsey May and Michael Ezban, Britt is also advancing research on AI and the design curriculum. Funded by a UMD Teaching and Learning Transformation Grant, their work has been shared at leading conferences, including the Architectural Research Centers Consortium and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

She holds a Master of Architecture and Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Maryland.

Research interests:

• Architectural tectonics
• Sustainable design
• Generative AI