Billie Faircloth, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C

Co-Founder and Research Director

Billie Faircloth is a design leader, educator, and transdisciplinarian who has transformed practice-integrated research and earned a national and international reputation for demonstrating its value, methods, and outcomes. As former partner and research director at the Philadelphia-based architectural practice KieranTimberlake, 2008 to 2024, Faircloth guided the collaborative development of award-winning architecture, planning, and research projects, including TallyLCA, which provides designers with an actionable understanding of the embodied environmental impacts of buildings.

Architectural Record celebrated Faircloth's relentless pioneering of transdisciplinary practice-based research when it selected her as its 2017 Women in Architecture Innovator Award winner. Faircloth is currently on the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Building Transparency. She previously served on the AIA Committee on the Environment and was its Chair in 2022. She also served the International Union of Architects (UIA) World Congress of Architects by co-convening the Design for Climate Adaptation science track between 2020 - 2023. Faircloth will join Cornell University in 2025 as an associate professor in the Department of Architecture and a Senior Faculty Fellow at the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability.