William Williams

BArch Univ. of Houston, MArch Harvard

Associate Professor

Associate Professor of Architecture, William Daryl Williams comes to school of architecture from six years teaching at the Rice University, and combined eight years teaching at the University of California at Los Angeles and the University of California at Berkeley. While in Houston, Mr. Williams founded and directed the Civic Arts Program, which allocated an annual budget of $21 million toward refurbishing existing public art and funding the creation of new art.

Williams maintains a private architecture practice in Houston, Williams Pizzini Architects (WPa), which specializes in the design of affordable, single-family dwellings. He recently received a Graham Foundation Grant for his exhibition entitled, "The Dresser Trunk Project," with each trunk and its contents symbolically and architecturally representing a now-forgotten venue at which Black musicians performed during Segregation. Mr. Williams’ work has been featured in the books 16 houses, and Harlemworld, and is coeditor of the recently released book ROW: Trajectories through the shotgun house.