EDUCATION AND HISTORICAL
-Harvard Graduate School of Design, B.A in Architecture
-University of Tennessee, B.S. in Civil Engineering
-Retired Captain of the US Air Force, fighter pilot
-Member NCARB – National Council of Architectural Registrations Boards
-Registered architect since 1962 in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts
-Member of Who’s Who in the National Register of Executives and Professionals
WORKS of ROBERT CARL WILLIAMS
President and founder of the Hawk Mountain Corporation the first green approach to sustained development in Vermont, setting aside large portions of the colonies as common land, not to be built upon but preserved.
Robert Williams who is a civil engineer of the University of Tennessee and an architect of the Harvard’s Graduate School of Design founded the Hawk Mountain Corporation and his architectural firm based on the philosophy of preserving the natural environment. The current, so called, “Green Technology” followed later as a popular and necessary means to preserving our planet.
Robert served for eighteen years as president of Hawk, creating five complete colonies in central Vermont, inclusive of land acquisition, environmental approvals, property management, the Hawk construction company, master planning, and architectural design of all homes including construction of all homes, encompassing approximately 500 units within the colonies over 45 years.
The colonies by name are: Hawk Mountain in Pittsfield, Timber Hawk in Stockbridge, Great Hawk in Rochester, Sunrise in Killington, and Salt Ash in Plymouth.
Hawk employed 125 persons in 1980. Included in the design of the colonies were restaurants, commercial facilities, sports centers, theaters, a summer camp for children, hotels and networks of common land in all the colonies with nature trails winding through the home sites and colonies.
Robert sold his interest in the Hawk Mountain Corporation in 1980 and started Robert Carl Williams Associates, P.C. in central Vermont. He retained all rights to architectural and land planning design for the colonies in addition to providing architectural services primarily in Vermont and the neighboring states.
More recent work includes the Ski Shack commercial addition in Killington Vermont; the expansion and renovation of several Killington Ski Resort base lodge facilities; an addition and renovation of the Inner Traditions Publishing Company in Rochester Vermont and the Wilcox Pharmacy in Rutland Vermont; along with numerous renovations and approximately 20 original home designs a year.