Daniel Williams

Daniel E. Williams, FAIA, APA

dwa-design

architecture, urban and regional design

dan@dwa-design.com

www.dwa-design.com

Daniel Williams, is a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects and is an internationally recognized expert in sustainable architecture and watershed planning. Mr. Williams is a member of the experts team for the Clinton Climate + Initiative, advising on projects in Toronto and London. He served as 2006 chair of the AIA's Sustainability Task Group and sat on the national advisory council for United States Environmental Protection Agency - NACEPT. He participated in the development the 2010 Council of Mayor's resolution that will reduce carbon emissions by 50%; presented Watershed Planning Initiatives at the Center for Neighborhood Technologies in Chicago; co-wrote the Barcelona Declaration on Sustainability; and has worked with dozens of communities around the country, creating master plans with the residents - specifically to assist in the rebuilding of towns and cities after natural disasters.

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 and won the first passive design award in Architecture from NASA in 1980. His work on post-disaster large-scale urban and regional design won the 1999 and 2000 National Honor Award for Urban and Regional Design from the American Institute of Architects' and the Catherine Brown Award for Urban Design in the American Landscape in 1999. His projects range in scale from "off the grid" residences to regional master plans of thousands of square miles - these designs integrate issues in ecology, economic development, transportation, agricultural preservation, education, water resource protection, smart growth and climate change.

Named Eminent Scholar and Distinguished Alumni in 2000 at the University of Florida, his book SUSTAINABLE DESIGN: Ecology, Architecture and Planning was published Earthday 2007 by John Wiley & Sons - was designated by Planetizen as top ten book in urban and regional planning 2008 and the Royal Academy of Architects as a top book in sustainable design. He is presently working on a book titled SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE: Climate Change and Post Disaster Planning.