James Williamson

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James Williamson, author of The Ravine and The Architect, is a professor of architecture at the University of Memphis. After some 30 years of professional practice in his own firm, he now teaches full-time at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Prof. Williamson has received over 30 architectural design awards at the local, regional, and national levels, and his work has been published internationally. In 2005 he was elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects in recognition of his notable contributions in architectural design and education. He was born in Memphis, and is a graduate of Rhodes College. As a student he participated in the Civil Rights movement, marching with Dr. Martin Luther King during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. During the Vietnam War he served as a naval officer. Following his military service Prof. Williamson obtained two Master of Architecture degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a student of renowned architect Louis Kahn. In Philadelphia he also worked as an associate of Robert Venturi. Major commissions by his own firm in Memphis included a number of new churches, the restoration of two historic cathedrals and a theater, the headquarters of the city’s ballet company, a law office, and collaboration on a plan for downtown Memphis. His first novel, The Architect, was praised by a reviewer as “a thoughtful, moving novel about the realities of building, particularly when style collides with money, politics, and the demands of the less than enlightened… a lively treatise on architecture itself.” A previous book, The Central Gardens Handbook, is a guide to historic preservation for a local historic district, now in its second edition. In addition, he has had a number of articles published in national and international architectural journals, as well as a cover article for “Tennessee Historical Quarterly” magazine. The Ravine (2012) is his latest novel. Prof. Williamson is currently at work on a non-fiction book about Louis Kahn.

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Kahn at Penn
Representative edition published 2016
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The Ravine
Representative edition published 2012
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The Architect
Representative edition published 2007
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The Tudor Age
Representative edition published 1979
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Sir Francis Drake
Representative edition published 1975
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The voyages of the Cabots and the discovery of North America
Representative edition published 1970
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Hawkins of Plymouth
Representative edition published 1969
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A notebook of Commonwealth history
Representative edition published 1967
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Great Britain and the Commonwealth
Representative edition published 1965
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The Akas
Representative edition published 1962
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The English Channel, a history
Representative edition published 1960
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The English Channel
Representative edition published 1959
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The Tudor Age
Representative edition published 1953
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The life and growth of the British empire
Representative edition published 1940
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The British Empire and Commonwealth
Representative edition published 1935
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The foundation [and] growth of the British Empire
Representative edition published 1932
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The voyages of the Cabots and the English discovery of North America under Henry VII and Henry VIII
Representative edition published 1929
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Sir John Hawkins
Representative edition published 1927
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The Caribbee islands under the proprietary patents
Representative edition published 1926
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Europe overseas
Representative edition published 1925
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English colonies in Guiana and on the Amazon
Representative edition published 1923
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English colonies in Guiana and on the Amazon, 1604-1668
Representative edition published 1923
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A short history of British expansion
Representative edition published 1922
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Maritime enterprise, 1485-1558
Representative edition published 1913
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