Austin Williams
Austin Williams – Director Future Cities Project.
Austin is director of the Future Cities Project. An architect and project manager by profession, Austin was the technical editor at the Architects'Journal and architecture critic on BBC London. He is now the architectural producer of NBS TV - the world’s first digital architectural channel. He is the author of The Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability and founder of Manifesto Towards a New Humanism in Architecture. He is the co-editor of The Future of Community and author and illustrator of Shortcuts – an idiot’s guide to the construction industry. He has written for a range of books and publications, including: The Times Literary Supplement, Daily Telegraph, Times Higher Educational Supplement, Top Gear, Blueprint, Building Design, spiked-online and The London Property Review. He devised and hosts the Bookshop Barnies.
Austin Williams is chairing the session The Agile City: Local Ties versus Global Reach
