Keith Williams (architect)


Keith Williams is a British architect and urban designer. He is the founder and director of design at in London.

Education and career

Keith Williams was educated at Kingston Grammar School before going on to study architecture at Kingston and then Greenwich Schools of Architecture. He was elected to the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1984, and worked for several notable firms including and , before co-founding Pawson Williams Architects in 1987. In January 2001 he founded Keith Williams Architects, and operates as the firm's director of design. He was elected to the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland in 2005, became a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2007 and a member of the National Design Review Panel for the Commission of Architecture and the Built Environment in 2009. In 2011, he was elected to the National Awards Panel of the Civic Trust becoming the panel's chair in 2015. In 2016 he became a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Williams has won 40 major awards for architecture and design. The first monograph on the firm's work Keith Williams: Architecture of the Specific, was published by Images Publishing Group, Mulgrave, Australia in December 2009.

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