Craig P. Williams Selected Winner of Marmomacc Continuing Education Contest

July 21, 2014

Veronafiere, host and organizer of Marmomacc, has selected Craig P. Williams, a Principal of David M. Schwarz Architects, Inc. of Washington, DC, as the winner of the continuing education contest hosted by AEC Daily. He will receive a free trip to Verona, Italy to attend "Designing with Natural Stone", Marmomacc's week-long continuing education program for architects. Mr. Williams has been practicing architecture for thirty-five years. He joined the firm directly from the University of Maryland, School of Architecture, and has spent his entire career there with his partners, associates, and collaborators. As the firm’s work grew in size and complexity, so did Mr. Williams’s projects. In the beginning, there were many townhouse renovations and adaptive reuse of historic structures, followed by both commercial and residential developer work. Ultimately, he has served as project manager on many of the firm’s most complex projects, including sports venues, large master plans, mixed use projects and performing arts venues, including the Schermerhorn Symphony Center, one of the Building Stone Institute’s 2014 Trucker Design Award winners for the use of natural stone. “For most of my career I have been fortunate to have clients that desired well-crafted and timeless design, and who understood the benefits of materials that would stand the test of time, such as natural stone.” In his designs for and specifications of natural stone, he has been fortunate to visit showrooms, warehouses, fabrication plants, and quarries through the US, as well as others in Europe, but attending Marmomacc and the Stone Academy, will take it to a much higher level. “This unprecedented opportunity to see so much stone material and visit so many facilities is a real treat. I am most appreciative of Marmomacc/Veronafiere and AEC Daily for this outstanding opportunity to further my in-depth knowledge and understanding of stone and its uses. I will treasure this for the remainder of my career.” “Designing with Natural Stone” offers a unique combination of classroom lectures, guided architectural tours, and field trips to local quarries, as well as to natural stone processing facilities. This comprehensive approach enables architects to better understand stone’s full life-cycle -- including how marble is quarried, cut, processed, finished, selected for specific jobs and installed, all using the latest technologies and products. Veronafiere is a trade fair host and organizer based in Verona, Italy.

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