Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham

Senior Campus Planner and Architect

University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA


Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, FAIA, LEED AP BD&C is an architect, planner and project manager with over 40 years of professional experience. At the University of Massachusetts Amherst since 1998, she has contributed to and managed a wide spectrum of projects, including master plans, carbon mitigation plans, space utilization studies, historic preservation and building feasibility studies, as well as the design and construction management of facilities for sciences, the humanities and student life. She currently manages the campus LEED buildings program and does sustainability and campus master planning, facilities programming and planning, and regulatory compliance. She is a founding member of UMassBRUT, an award-winning group dedicated to raising awareness of the relevance and international significance of the Brutalist architectural heritage across the campuses of the UMass System. Prior to joining UMass she worked for design firms in New York on complex, multi-million-dollar projects in the US, China and Bulgaria. Ludmilla has a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture and European Cultural Studies from Princeton University, and a Master of Architecture from Columbia University.