Brittany L. Williams, AIA LEED AP BD+C is a registered architect and educator. Britt's interests lie at the intersection of environmental stewardship and building craft.
As an architect at Gardner Architects LLC in Bethesda, Maryland, Britt focuses on a detail-oriented, multidisciplinary approach to the synthesis of sustainable active and passive strategies at the residential scale. Gardner Architects has won AIA awards in Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and Washington, DC. 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 at the University of Maryland, College Park. Many of Britt’s pedagogical pursuits center on the integration of environmental stewardship in the architectural curriculum. Britt holds the position of Design Discipline Coordinator in the Architecture Program and teaches both graduate and undergraduate studios, including the Integrated Design Studio. Britt served as a faculty adviser for the University’s winning entry in Solar Decathlon 2011, an international design-build collegiate competition. In 2013, Britt was based at Peking University in Beijing where she acted as the competition manager for Solar Decathlon China 2013.
With collaborators Lindsey May and Michael Ezban, Britt is also advancing research on AI and the design curriculum. Funded by a University of Maryland Teaching and Learning Transformation Grant, their work has been shared at leading conferences, including the Architectural Research Centers Consortium 2025 Conference at Howard University and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture 2025 Intersections Research Conference at Wentworth Institute of Technology.