Karol R. Williams, M.Arch, architect, has been practicing and teaching architecture for thirty-five years in Philadelphia and Washington, DC. In professional practice she has specialized in all phases of healthcare design - master planning, programming through construction documents and administration, and Post-Occupancy Evaluations (POEs). As Adjunct Assistant Professor at Drexel University Karol taught and coordinated Architectural Design Studios, Architectural Engineering Design Studios and Architectural Programming. She was a guest lecturer on Contemporary Architecture during Semester at Sea’s 2013 50-day Enrichment Voyage “Coastal Cultures of the West” and a 2019 Fellow of the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Her health design research publications and presentations have included EDRA symposiums in Edinburgh, St. Louis and San Francisco. Most recently Karol was guest editor of the Fall 2023 Docomomo_US special edition of Revisiting Urban Design and author of Uncovering the Archives: Displacement in Southwest, District of Columbia 1939-2023. She currently volunteers at the National Building Museum and is helping to uncover personal objects, unlabeled photographs, negatives and transparencies of renowned mid-century architectural photographer Robert C. Lautman. Karol has a B.A. from Cornell University with a major in Psychology and a Master of Architecture from SCI-Arc Southern California Institute of Architecture.
Karol R. Williams, M. Arch
