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Buddy Williams is currently a 'designer-for-hire',
residing in the San Francisco bay area, collaborating with architects
on a range of scales from master plans to construction document detailing
and was most recently the Director of Sustainability for a large, environmentally
aware architectural firm in Manchester, England. He has worked as an
architect in Boston and San Francisco. Other professions have included
carpentry and general contracting, a surveyor for a medieval cathedral
in the south of France, graphic artist and commissioned architectural
photographer. Buddy holds a Masters Degree in Architecture from U. C.
Berkeley and an Undergraduate Degree in Environmental Design from Texas
A&M University. Buddy spent 1 1/2 years in South Africa and the Kingdom
of Lesotho working as a designer and builder on various ecological and
extremely affordable housing projects, landscape integrated school designs
and ecovillage sites.
Together Sim and Buddy have worked on a variety of ecologically informed
master plans, college buildings and ecovillages, one of which established
the first biological waste water treatment system to be constructed for
an affordable housing project in the USA. |