Austin Williams is course leader in the post-graduate diploma programme in Architecture and Professional Practice at Kingston School of Art in London, and Honorary Research Fellow at XJTLU University, Suzhou, China where he lived from 2011-2017. He was previously the Technical Editor of The Architects’ Journal, and China correspondent for The Architectural Review.
He is the director of the Future Cities Project, and the author of "China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-cities" (2017) and “New Chinese Architecture: Twenty Women Building the Future” published by Thames and Hudson (2019).
Williams founded the mantownhuman manifesto featured in Penguin Classics’ “100 Artists Manifestos”. He has spoken at a wide range of conferences, from New York to Ningbo; from Hawaii to Hong Kong; and is a regular media commentator on development, environmentalism and China.
He has written for magazines as diverse as Nature, Wired, Top Gear, South China Morning Post, Metropolis, Times Literary Supplement, and The Economist.
Other books include: “Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability”, “The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated”, and “The Lure of the City: From Slums to Suburbs”, and a range of chapters.
He wrote and directed over 200 short documentaries for NBSTV; and he was the author and illustrator of the series of books, “Shortcuts: essential guides for building designers”.
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