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M.Arch.
Teaching Area
Design, history, preservation, theory. |
Education
Bachelor of Architecture (Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
1973)
Master of Architecture (Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1975)
Reference
William L. Tilson is Assistant Dean for International Studies and Service Learning and Professor of Architecture in the College of Design, Construction and Planning at the University of Florida. Since 1992, he has been the Director of the Preservation Institute: Caribbean (PI:C), the College’s off-campus program in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America, which sponsors research, public awareness, professional and academic programs in preservation and design. Tilson is also the co-director of UF's Research and Education Center for Architectural Preservation (RECAP), a consortium that conducts funded research in preservation. Working with PI:C and RECAP, Tilson has been lead researcher and consultant on numerous documentation and planning projects for historic sites and communities throughout the region including locations in Antigua, Barbados, Yucatán, St. Lucia, Jamaica, Bahamas, Trinidad-Tobago, Miami and Fernandina. He has worked as a consultant for the City of Fernandina on three projects since 1996: the Design Guidelines for Old Town, updating the Historic Preservation Guidelines for Fernandina and the Design Guidelines for the Waterfront Community Development Area
Professor Tilson teaches design studios at all levels, design theory seminars, preservation coursework, and mentors students on masters’ research projects and Ph.D. dissertations. He is a member of the United States International Council on Monuments and Sites sub-committees on Historic Towns and Historic Landscapes and serves on the Board of Directors of the Amelia Island History Museum. His personal research focuses the impact of new architecture on public space in rural and seacoast communities; particularly the role design guidelines play in managing identity of place, design theory with an emphasis on 19th and early twentieth century urbanism in the Americas, and the impact of tourism on historic settlements.
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