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Blake Williams specializes in residential architecture, urban and community planning with a particular focus on green modern design.

    The studio is led by Blake Williams, AIA, a professional architect who is currently a Five Colleges Associate at Amherst College, Massachusetts. Projects range in location from the Pacific Northwest  to Michigan and Massachusetts. Williams has over 20 years experience in the design of civic, commercial, religious and residential buildings.

    In his professional practice he works closely with his clients as an architect, community planner and urban designer. Blake's experience in working at different scales allows him to assist clients develop their program into a conceptual framework that is strongly rooted in place without loosing a sense of our contemporary society. This collaboration  with the client begins with themes that are rooted in the physical and cultural context surrounding the site with the aim of exploring experiential phenomena, tactile details and the engagement of the body in space. Prior to architecture Williams was a musician, which highlights his inter-disciplinary approach to design that is often inspired by music, literature, and the visual arts..

    Williams is licensed to practice in multiple states. He has taught graduate and undergraduate architecture and planning in schools from coast to coast and in Rome, Italy. In 1991, Williams received a fellowship to study architecture and craft in Japan. In 2000, he was asked to present his work at the World Sustainability Conference in Seoul, Korea. His research on El Lisitsky was exhibited at the Walker Art Center, the Henry Art Gallery and the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. In 2001 Williams was invited to give a lecture and exhibition at Washington on his publication, Seattle Case Study Homes. More recent work includes the SOLA home: a solar powered prefabricated home that appears in the book, Prefab Modern. In the fall of 2008, Williams presented his Cypress Shelter at the ACSA Prefab conference at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.