Daniel Williams
Daniel E. Williams has been studying the impacts of climate change on urban and regional patterns for over 30 years. His post-disaster work in Florida after the 1992 Hurricane Andrew earned the 1999 American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Honor Award for Urban and Regional Design. He received the award again in 2000 for the Smart Growth Study for the Southeast Coastal Zone of Florida.
Williams is a fellow in the AIA and is an internationally recognized expert in sustainable architecture and urban and regional design. He is a member of the experts team for the Clinton Climate + Initiative, advising on projects in Toronto and London. In 2006, he chaired the AIA’s Sustainability Task Group and was appointed to the national advisory council for United States Environmental Protection Agency.
He participated in the development the 2010 Council of Mayor’s resolution that will reduce carbon emissions by 50 percent; edited and co-wrote the Site & Land Use section of the International Green Construction Codes; presented Watershed Planning Initiatives at the Center for Neighborhood Technologies in Chicago; wrote and chaired the AIA/EPA grant Water + Design: Conference; co-wrote the Barcelona Declaration on Sustainability; and has worked with the residents of dozens of communities around the country to create master plans.
In 2003, he chaired the national Committee on the Environment for the American Institute of Architects and chaired the Task Force on the Environment and Energy for the Congress for the New Urbanism from 1996-2000. He also won the first passive design award in architecture from NASA in 1980.
Williams was named Eminent Scholar and Distinguished Alumni in 2000 at the University of Florida. His 2007 book Sustainable Design: Ecology, Architecture and Planning was named by Planetizen as a top five book in planning. He is presently working on a book titled Design with Climate-Change: An Ecological Approach to Regional Sustainability.
Related Resources from Daniel Williams
Disaster Recovery: Practicing Resilience
