Our Team

Bradley Walters, AIA, NCARB

BRADLEY WALTERS, AIA, NCARB, is a practicing architect and educator. Mr. Walters is the Edward M. “Ted” Fearney Endowed Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Florida, where he is the Associate Director of Graduate Programs for the School of Architecture. Mr. Walters teaches studio design, architectural detailing, research methods, and professional practice. His current research is centered on high-performance zero-energy buildings, within a broader context of social, artistic, and cultural production. This work engages building science, thermal/energy modelling, climatic responses, and materiality. Secondary areas of research include teaching methods, pedagogy, drawing, and visual communications.

Mr. Walters earned his Master of Architecture degree from Princeton University and a Bachelor of Design in Architecture with Highest Honors from the University of Florida. He has studied and taught at the Vicenza Institute of Architecture (Vicenza, Italy) and the UF MSAS Sustainable Design Program, based in Singapore (2011-2023).

Mr. Walters is leading a multi-year effort addressing housing in the Native Village of Tyonek, Alaska. He was the Principal Investigator for the Rebuilding Community EPA Community Change Grant, Quinlivan Net-Zero Energy House and the Solar Living House, designed for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Decathlon 2015 project. He was a co-principal investigator for the award-winning Project RE:FOCUS, a design-build project constructed for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 in Madrid, Spain. He was awarded the DCP Graduate Faculty Teaching Award in 2025, a University of Florida Term Professorship in 2017, an Excellence Award for Assistant Professors in 2014, and was recognized as “Teacher of the Year” by the University of Florida College of Design, Construction and Planning in 2011.

In practice with Hillier Architecture and RMJM, he co-directed a special projects team, where his work included the House at Leeside Farm, Solebury School Abbe Science Center, Becton Dickinson Campus Center, Walker Hall Winery, Irving Convention Center, and West Windsor Redevelopment Plan, amongst others. His work has been recognized by numerous AIA Honor and Merit Awards, and it has been published by Architectural Record, Urbanism and Architecture, A+D, ARQ, Hinge, and Oculus.

Mr. Walters serves as an independent peer reviewer of manuscripts for numerous publishers and has served as a peer reviewer for the National AIA Case Studies Initiative. He has served as an invited critic on design reviews at the Univerza v Ljubljani Fakulteta za Arhitekturo (Ljubljana, Slovenia), University of Nebraska at Lincoln, University of Virginia, and the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

Curriculum Vitae (Revised: 22 Mar 2026)

COLLABORATORS

Mark McGlothlin

Associate Director of Undergraduate Programs + Edward M. “Ted” Fearney Endowed Associate Professor, School of Architecture, University of Florida

Co-faculty lead on award-winning Tebughna Fireweed proposal for the Native Village of Tyonek, Alaska.
Co-Principal Investigator on funded $20M Community Change Grant from US EPA.
Co-authored numerous journal articles and conference presentations, including Dead Letter Office, Ends and Means, Unmoored Architecture, and Solar Decathlon Europe 2010: Towards Energy Efficient Buildings.

Robert J. Ries, Ph.D.

Professor, M.E. Rinker, Sr. School of Construction Management, University of Florida

Principal Investigator for Project Re:Focus for the Solar Decathlon Europe 2010 International Competition.
Co-faculty lead on award-winning Tebughna Fireweed proposal for the Native Village of Tyonek, Alaska.
Co-Principal Investigator on funded $20M Community Change Grant from US EPA.
Co-authored numerous journal articles and conference presentations, including Solar Decathlon Europe 2010: Towards Energy Efficient Buildings.

J. Robert Hillier, FAIA

Managing Principal, Studio Hillier, Princeton NJ

Mentor, Teacher, and Colleague at Hillier Architecture and RMJM Hillier (1999-2008).
Collaborated on numerous projects, including the House at Leeside Farm, Coventry Farms Residential Development, Virgin Spa at Natirar, West Windsor Redevelopment, and Walker Hall Winery, amongst many others.

Barbara A. Hillier, AIA

(1951-2022)

Mentor, Colleague, and Friend at Hillier Architecture and RMJM Hillier (1999-2008).
Collaborated on numerous projects, including Abbe Science Center, Solebury School Athletic Center, Becton Dickinson Campus Center, and the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas, amongst others.

Lisa Huang, AIA

Senior Designer, Gensler, San Francisco CA

Co-Principal Investigator for NCARB Award for the Integration of Practice and Education, including $35,000 funding.
Collaborated in the development and implementation of new graduate studio curricula and integrated technology coursework.
Co-authored Oculata Manus: On the Role of the Body in the Making of Creative Minds, Speculative Making: Engaging Mass and Matter, and numerous other conference and journal publications.