William M. Taylor

Professor William M (Bill) Taylor is a native of Louisiana, growing up amidst the distinctive wetlands, antebellum ruin and political quagmire of America's Deep South. He obtained a Bachelor of Architecture with Honours degree from Louisiana State University (1984) where he came to understand buildings by means of philosophy, literature and humanities-based learning, and to challenge fundamentalist thinking of whatever denomination. He obtained a Graduate Diploma in History and Theory from the Architectural Association in London (1987) where he turned these proclivities to study architecture in relation to sociology and politics, art and power. His subsequent move to Perth, Western Australia encouraged additional interests in landscape theory and environmental studies. He obtained a PhD from the University of Western Australia (1995) with a thesis that identified historical and theoretical grounds for reasoning about nature and the built environment. He has been a Registered Architect since 1986.

Bill currently teaches and conducts research from the School of Design, UWA where he is also a founding member of the Eco-Matters research group.