William Sherman

A.B. in Architecture and Urban Planning, Princeton University;
M.Arch., Yale University

Associate Professor

William Sherman is an Associate Professor of Architecture and a practicing architect. His research, practice and design studios have been focused for many years on the interaction between architecture, the city and ecological systems. His work explores the cultural, political and environmental responsibility of architecture as the construction of a binding, sustaining and transformational infrastructure. His required undergraduate and graduate course, Systems, Sites and Building, investigates the role of the built environment in mediating the human interaction with energy flows and dynamic natural systems. Having completed terms as Associate Dean for Academics and the first Chair of the newly combined Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, he teaches studios ranging in focus from the sustainable city to the design of learning environments that encourage the teaching and practice of innovation across all university programs. His work has been published internationally and has received numerous awards, including six from the American Institute of Architects, five for Design Excellence at the national, state and local levels and one for Excellence in Education.

Through the design of projects ranging in scale from institutional additions, a cohousing community, houses, housing and museum renovations, he works with modest materials to connect the inhabitants of the buildings to each other, to their immediate settings and to the natural larger processes. His work has received a number of awards from the American Institute of Architects and has been published in Progressive Architecture, Architecture and Architect magazines. His most recent completed design is the South Addition to Campbell Hall at the University of Virginia (with SMBW Architects).