Brittany Wiliams

Speaker at the Teaching the Arts in the Age of A.I. Symposium

Brittany L. Williams, AIA LEED AP BD+C is a registered architect and Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at the University of Maryland. Britt’s interests lie at the intersection of environmental stewardship and building craft.

As an architect at Gardner Architects LLC in Silver Spring, Maryland, Britt currently focuses on a detailed oriented, multidisciplinary approach to the synthesis of sustainable active and passive strategies at the residential scale. Her work at the firm has earned many design awards and recognition, including, most recently, a 2024 Design Merit Award from AIA Northern Virginia. Her previous professional experiences include a broad range of institutional projects from government buildings to schools and churches.

Britt is an Associate Clinical Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation and serves as the Design Discipline Coordinator of the Architecture Program. Many of Britt’s academic pursuits, including her experiences with the Solar Decathlon, an international design-build collegiate competition, have centered on the integration of environmental stewardship in the architectural curriculum. In 2020 and 2022, Britt was awarded with the Outstanding Teaching Award from the School.