WILLIAM L. TILSON Professor, School of Architecture, University of Florida Director, Preservation Institute: Caribbean Co-Director, Research Center for Architectural Preservation Teaching Area Design, history and theory, cultural preservation. Education Teaching Master of Architecture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1975(honors) Bachelor of Architecture, VPI&SU, 1973 Professor, School of Architecture University of Florida, 1994-present Visiting Critic, Catholic University, fall two week session 1989 Associate Professor, Department Architecture, University of Florida, 1985-1994. Assistant Professor, Department Architecture, University of Florida, 1980-1985 Visiting Professor, VPI&SU, Summer 1978 Assistant Professor (w/tenure), Department of Pre-Design Professions, Kansas State University, 1975-1980. Administrative Director, Preservation Institute: Caribbean, 1992 present. Co-director, Research and Education Center for Architectural Preservation, 1996-present Co-Director, Center for Tropical Architecture, Planning and Construction, 1999-2003 Founder, Executive Director, Design Exploration Program-a summer institute for high school students. 1983-1992. Publications Miami Virtue: the Psychogeography of the Virtual City. (Manuscript in publication review) Book, co-authored with Greg Ulmer and the Florida Research Ensemble: a guide to the "testimonial", for use on the World Wide Web, to support collaboration across the levels of schooling, and to bring arts methods to bear on public policy formation. Miami Miautre: Mapping the Virtual City--A Preview, in Journal of Visual Culture, 1:3 (2002). co-authored with Greg Ulmer and the Florida Research Ensemble MIAMI MIAUTRE: A Trailer, LEONARDO (ISAST), Artist Statement Leonardo Electronic Almanac Vol 9 No 2 co-authored with Greg Ulmer and the Florida Research Ensemble. Agricultural Constructs in the Greater Caribbean Basin: Geography: Culture, and Climate in the Making of Place. Proceedings, International Schools of Architecture Conference, Istanbul, Turkey Preservation and Design Guidelines for Speightstown, Barbados. Ministry of Tourism and the National Trust of Barbados.
Broad Casting Standards for a Minor Profession, Proceedings, ACSA National Conference, 1991. The Parking Garage-Theoretical Aspects of a Technological Problem. Proceedings, National ACSA Technology Conference, 1991. Reading the Post-industrial City (w/r. Macleod) Proceedings, National ACSA Technology Conference, 1991. Grants/Consulting Designer Consultant Multiuse development of 2 acres of Old Town Florida, the last town platted by the Spanish in the western hemisphere-the first project of size to be designed under the new architectural guidelines which emphasizes sustainable development. 2001-present. $6,000,000 estimated budget Research and design of explanatory model of Old Town, Florida for Amelia island Museum of History. Sponsored by the State of Florida and the Town of Fernandina Beach. 2002-2003 $6.500 Research and design of working model of the Buckman Lock, Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway Visitors Center East Buckman Museum Sponsored by the State of Florida. 2002-2003 $10,000 Co-principle Investigator (w/ L.Linscott, et al) Design Guidelines for historic landscapes, Structures and New Construction for the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway. Multidisciplinary management plan for transforming the 110 mile de-commissioned Cross Florida Barge into a public greenway. 2001-2003. $650,000 Design Guidelines, City of Gainesville Florida. Revision of historic preservation guidelines for the three historic districts in the city including all new illustrations. 2002-2003 $19,500. Co- (w/ J. Hertz, URP,dean) Electronic studio: Ferry Terminals for the City of Miami and San Juan Viejo, Puerto Rico. Collaborative studio development with the Architectural school at Rio Piedras, San Juan. Project present with live interactive video between San Juan and Gainesville, Funded by the American Collegiate Schools of Architecture. Spring, 2000 $1,500. Co- (w/p. Prugh and Archeologist B. Piatek) Integrated Cultural Resource Management Plan, Florida Army National Guard (FLARNG). Brings the 75,000 acres of FlARNG property into compliance with all relevant international, federal and state statues concerning the preservation of ecological, archeological and cultural resources. 1999-2000. $72,500
Grants/Consulting Co- "Imaging Florida (w/g. Ulmer (PI), B. Revelle, C. Freeman, G. Bleach-Florida Research Ensemble). University of Florida Graduate Research Opportunity Fund. Summer 1998 $64,022 Design Guidelines, City of Fernandina, Florida. New preservation guidelines for the 19th waterfront community of Fernandina which is facing significant development pressures from tourism. 2000-2001. $17,800 Design Guidelines for Old Town, Florida. Sponsored by the State of Florida and the Town of Fernandina Beach. Illustrated preservation new construction guide for the last town platted by the Spanish in the western hemisphere. 1998-2000 $25,000 (two phases) Co- (w/h. Shepard) Documentation drawings and construction analysis of Bush Hill, the only structure inhabited by George Washington outside of the United States. Funded by the Government of Barbados, The National Trust of Barbados and private funds. 1998-1999 $23,500 Preservation Guidelines for Speightstown, Barbados WI. Sponsored by the National Trust of Barbados and the Ministry of Finance and the International Development Bank. Illustrated preservation and development guide for an 18th century seaport on the west coast of Barbados 1995-1997. $30,000 Co- (w/r. Johnson) Development of Urban Inventory and Design Guidelines for Parham, Antigua, WI Sponsored by the OAS, 1993-94. $17,500 Director Preservation Institute: Caribbean summer professional development workshops. Sponsored by the Organization of American States. 1992-1995. $25,000 Designer Consultant Development and construction of prototype low income housing units made with recycled paper. Blalock Group, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1986-1988 Design Consultant/Researcher Morris/Clark Architects, Houston, Texas, 1986-1987. Thomas Clark and Associates, Baltimore, Maryland, 1982-1985. In charge of design research, preservation guidelines and design assistant to the principle.
Lectures Place making in Rural Mexico, Annual Meeting, Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, Delray Beach, FL., May 2004. "Miami Choragraphy," Lecture, Colloquium, Seminar, with Greg Ulmer, sponsored by the Design Institute, University of Texas, Austin, February 25-26, 2002. "Miami Choragraphy," Lecture, Colloquium, Seminar, with Greg Ulmer, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Cranbrook Institute Teachers' Seminar 1998 Agricultural Constructs in the Greater Caribbean Basin: Geography: Culture, and Climate in the Making of Place, International Schools of Architecture Conference. Design Studio Collaboration using the Internet American Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Southeast. Region, October, 2000. "Mapping the Virtual City," Souths: Global and Local: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University Of Florida. (w/fre). 2001 "The New Consultancy," 14th Annual Computers and Writing Conference, Gainesville, FL, May, 1998. (w/fre). New Forms of Tourism, Florida State University Symposium on the Quincentennial, 1992. Service, United States International Committee of Monuments and Sites 1999-present., US/ICOMOS committees Historic Towns, Vernacular Architecture. 2002-present Camera-lighting director Little Martha Braniac independent video production, (Jane Edwards, writer-director). Premiered Hippodrome State Theater, Gainesville, FL April 2004. Research Associate St. Augustine Foundation Center for Historic Research, 2000-2003 Faculty Search Committee 1994-1996. Lecture Series Committee 1989-1992 Windshield Survey of post World War II structures in Miami Beach in cooperation with the Historic District Commission of Miami Beach. Summer 1994 (probono) Co- Windshield Survey of Overtown, Historic African-American community in Miami, Florida, Summer 1994. Preliminary survey of existing buildings and archival research in cooperation with the Black Archives of Miami. (probono)
Service Tenure and Promotion Committee 2001-2003 Tenure and Promotion Committee 2001-2003 Faculty Senate representative-college of Architecture. 1998-2001 Center for Latin American Studies, Executive Council, 1992 1998. Provost's Adhoc Committee on Electronic Visualization, 1993 1995. Status of Women Committee, University of Florida, 1989-1990. Secretary Florida Media Arts Center, 1990-1992 Advisory Board for the Interdisciplinary Media Studies Program, University of Florida, 1987 present. Awards Teaching Improvement Award, 1994-1995 Preservation Service Award. Miami Beach Design Preservation League. August, 1995 Elected representative for UF School of Architecture, Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture, Teachers' Seminar at Cranbrook, Workshop, summer, 1992. Research Sabbatical 1986-87- Application of Research and Development methods in the Architectural office