I have written for a range of publications:
Nature, Wired; Times Higher Education; Top Gear; Blueprint; Architects’ Journal; Building; Building Design; New Humanist; The Tablet; London Property Review; spiked-online; Daily Telegraph; MJ; FX; LM; RIBA Journal; Architectural Review, Global, QS Week, Architectural Review Pacific Region; China Daily; Times Literary Supplement; AsianAge; Academy of Ideas substack, Daily Sceptic, Deccan Chronicle, L’Architecture dÁujourd’hui, ICON magazine, International Business Times, The New European, Dezeen, ArchDaily, South China Morning Post, Perspective, Baumeister (Berlin), Urban Design, Metropolis, The Economist, Wallpaper*, Areo magazine, UnHerd, Royal Academy magazine, Spectator, Cafe Americain
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
- Winner: SCOSA “Innovation in Education” Award 2025
- Course leader, Post-graduate Diploma in Professional Practice in Architecture (Part 3).
- Senior lecturer, M.Arch. (module leader)
- Visiting Scholar & Honorary Research Fellow, XJTLU university, China.
- Associate Fellow, Higher Education Academy
- Summer School 2024 coordinator, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- Organiser, Critical Subjects, Architecture & Design School
- Host, Professional Practice Podcasts
- Tenured, Associate Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, China
- Co-founded, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture
- Gave the first ever lecture at XJTLU’s Architecture Dept in 2011 on Environmental Science
- Led the RIBA validation of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
- Academic Board member 2013-2015 (set term)
- Certificate in Professional Studies in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education (Distinction)
REGISTERED ARCHITECT:
- project architect, Geoffrey Purves Architects (Newcastle) 1995 – 2000
- lead architect, Lister Architectural & Interior Design (Hartlepool): 1993 – 1995
- principal architect, Banks of the Wear CHS (Sunderland): 1989 – 1993
RECENT TALKS 2018-2026
- AA, “Architecture & Progress” roundtable. (Mar 2026)
- Battle North, “How Do We Solve the Housing Crisis?”, Manchester (Mar 2026)
- Guest, Ali Miraj Show, LBC, (Dec 2025, Apr 2026)
- Literary interviews with Reinier de Graaf (June 2026, forthcoming), Kathleen Stock (Apr 2026), Bijan Omrani (Oct 2025), Professor Richard Susskind (Apr 2025), Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter (Feb 2025), Paul Morland (Oct 2024), Jake Wallis Simons (Jan 2024), Michael Shellenberger (February 2021), Paul Embery (Apr 2021), Laura Dodsworth (Jul 2021), Kerry Brown (Oct 2021), Tom Heap (Jun 2022), Konstantin Kisin (Oct 2022). Rakib Ehsan (Jun 2023).
- Summer School, “Urban Design”, Shanghai Jiaotong University (Jun 2024)
- Housing: Where Will We All Live, debate: Lord Bailey of Paddington, Simon Cooke, Helen MacNeil, Calvin Po (Apr 2024)
- Critiques of Sustainable Architecture, Bartlett School of Architecture (Feb 2024)
- Save Our Cities with Joel Kotkin, David Rudlin and Kathryn Firth at BDP architects. (Sept 2023)
- “History and belonging: life in a Chinese mega-city,” Chinese Whispers podcast, Spectator, (Sept 2022)
- New Chinese Architects: Twenty Women Building the Future, Exhibition and conference in Shanghai and London. (Feb-May 2019)
- China Futures, Royal College of Art & Lantao Design Academy, (Sept 2019)
- Speaker, International Symposium on Design Education, Shanghai Jiaotong School of Design
- Organiser & chair: Battle of Ideas debates – The Bauhaus Legacy; Construction Futures
- Exhibition: “20 Female Chinese Architects”, Shanghai and London
- Chinese Eco-city research presentation, Cardiff University; University of Liverpool in London, University College London, Aberdeen University, XJTLU university
- Sky Papers, newspaper reviewer, Sky TV
- Chinese Design, public presentation, V&A
- Presentations: Heatherwick Studios. UCL, UoL, and Royal College of Art
- Assessing Suzhou’s urban fringe: Edge Town critique, Urbanism at Borders Conference, Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, (2018)
- Eco-city comparators, Urban Transformation [Oxford/Tongji/CASS] Symposium, Kellogg College, University of Oxford, 2018
BOOKS & CHAPTERS
- Williams, A. Series Editor, Five Critical Essays on Over-Regulation, on AI, on EDI, on Wellbeing, on Ethics, on Beauty, on The Crit, on Architectural Education
- Williams A. and Mishineva, Z. Housing (2025), Where Shall We All Live
- Williams, A. (2025), “China’s Counter Urbanisation: The Great Leap Backwards”, Urbanie&Urbanus, HKIUD Journal of Urban Design, Issue11
- Williams, A. Chapter: “China’s Eco Dreams and Green Reality” in Zhang, Fangshu and Wu, Fulong (eds) China’s urban environmental governance
- Williams, A. (2025), “Goodbye to EDI”, BD magazine, March
- Williams, A. (2024), “China’s educational collapse” Spectator, Sept.
- Williams, A. (2024), “Britain’s campus free speech crisis is not a Chinese plot!, Unherd, August
- Williams, A. (2022), “Growth and the Appropriation of Nature. Left-wing Misanthropy, the Rise of Authoritarianism, and the Pro-Capitalist character of Environmental Discourse” in The Conformist Rebellion: Marxist Responses to the Contemporary Left
- Williams, A. (2022), “The Emerging City: Malawi and China”. In Powell, M. The Climate City
- Williams, A. (2022), The Grievances and Grudges Behind the Victimhood Agenda at UCL Bode Ill for the Future of Universities, The Daily Sceptic, Jul
- Williams, A. (2021), “Greens: The New Neo-Colonialists”, Letters on Liberty
- Istrate, A-L., Chen, F., Kadetz, P., Chang, Y. and Williams, A. (2020), Developing an analytical framework for liveable streets in Shanghai, Urban Design International, Springer Nature
- Williams, A. (2020), “Wang Shu Museum” Domus, Feb
- Williams, A. (2020), Urban transformation and mobility in Chinese society. In Chen, Chia-Lin et al. Handbook on Transport and Urban Transformation in China. Handbooks of Research on Contemporary China Series. Edward Elgar
- Williams, A. (2019), New Chinese Architects: 20 women building the future
- Williams, A. (2019), Hong Kong-Macau-Zhuhai Bridge, Urbanie&Urbanus, HKIUD Journal of Urban Design, Vol 1, Issue 1. pp13-24
- Williams, A. (2018),“Neo-liberal urbanism with Chinese characteristics”, Urban Design Journal, Sept
- Williams, A. (2018),“The Shanghai Slaughterhouse”, Architectural Review, Oct
- Williams, A. (2017), China’s urban revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-cities”
- Williams, A. (2017), (ed). Style (in defence of…)
- Williams, A. (2017), “Beyond pragmatism”, In Hayes. D. Beyond MacDonaldization
- Williams, A. and Dounas, T. (2012), eds., Masterplanning the Future: Modernism – East, West & Across the World
- Williams, A. (2012), ed., The Architectural Review, London. Emap, Sept
- Williams, A. (2011), ed., The Lure of the City: from Slums to Suburbs
- Williams, A. et al (2011), “mantownhuman: manifesto towards a new humanism”, in Danchev, A. ed. 100 Artists’ Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin Classic
- Williams, A. (2009), Shortcuts: Book 1 – Structure and Fabric
- Williams, A. (2009), Shortcuts: Book 2 – Sustainability and Practice
- Williams, A. (2008), Enemies of Progress: The dangers of sustainability
- Williams, A. (2008), eds., The Future of Community: Reports of a Death Greatly Exaggerated
- Williams, A. et al (2008), Manifesto: Towards a New Humanism
- Williams, A. (1999), ed., Transport in the New Millennium