As Design Director of our San Francisco office, Allison sets the design strategy for major projects of the office. In a career spanning more than 30 years of practice, her leadership in the design of large-scale civic, corporate, cultural and research facilities has influenced significant projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, nationally and internationally. Her diverse portfolio of work includes The August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, PA and CREATE (Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise) a 700,000 GSF research center for the National Research Foundation in Singapore; two prestigious commissions won through invited design competitions. Williams is committed to a collaborative and intuitive design approach that seamlessly integrates aesthetics, sustainable strategies and modern technologies. She believes that identity in architecture is a refined sensibility that touches on traditional values, culture and environmental awareness and that, conceptually, buildings should be primarily expressive of program and use and directly responsive to the climate, the specific site and to the influence of the sun.