Hand-Drawing in Practice Our staff share their thoughts on the importance of hand drawing as part of the design process. How is sketching important to your design process? Emily Jones: Sketching allows me...Read More
Celebrating John Ruffo’s Transition to Partner Emeritus at WRNS Studio As many of you know by now, after over 45 years of dreaming, playing, working, meeting, and cooking—18 of them at WRNS Studio—I am stepping into a new role. As...Read More
WRNS Studio’s New Senior Associate and Associates on leadership, studio culture, and architecture right now. Our new Senior Associate and Associates share their thoughts on architecture right now, returning to the studio, and what makes a good leader. What does it mean to you that...Read More
WRNS Studio Founding Partner Sam Nunes Elevated to AIA College of Fellows in 2022 WRNS Studio is proud to announce that Founding Partner, Sam Nunes, has been elevated to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) College of Fellows. The College of Fellows honors members who have...Read More
WRNS Studio’s New Senior Associates and Associates on Sustainability, Leadership, and Getting Back to the Studio Our new Senior Associates and Associates share their thoughts on sustainability, what makes a good leader, and what they look forward to most about returning to the studio. WRNS Studio...Read More
WRNS Studio Promotes 35: Expanding and Diversifying the Firm’s Leadership Amid Market Uncertainty WRNS Studio has named fourteen senior associates and twenty-one associates to expand leadership and grow capabilities across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, Honolulu, and New York. The promotions represent talent...Read More
Five Ways to Advance Higher Education for Future Viability Higher education within the United States is in the midst of an evolutionary change. But colleges and universities were having their moment of reckoning long before COVID-19 disrupted life and...Read More
Eight Strategies For Successful Public-Private Partnerships Eight Strategies For Successful Public-Private Partnerships explores ways to evolve the P3 delivery method. This content is an outcome of engagement with industry leaders and within the Society for College...Read More
Equity by Design: Metrics, Meaning & Matrices A Conversation with Rosa Sheng, Lilian Asperin, Annelise Pitts, Julia Mandell and Saskia Dennis-van Dijl We sat down with EQxD Founding Chair Rosa Sheng, Co-Chair Lilian Asperin, Research Chair Annelise...Read More
WRNS Studio’s New Senior Associates and Associates on Leadership and the Future of Design Our new Senior Associates and Associates share their thoughts on leadership and what makes WRNS an incredible place to work. WRNS defines its work as being about beauty, sustainability, and...Read More
WRNS Studio Promotes 18: Diversifies Expertise and Market Reach WRNS Studio — growing at an average of 20% annually — has named six senior associates and twelve associates to expand leadership across offices in San Francisco, Seattle, Honolulu, and...Read More
Project Director, Kanako Lathrop on Retail and Hospitality in Hawaii Kanako “Kana” Lathrop joined WRNS Studio’s Hawaii office in November of last year, bringing with her a doctorate in architecture and an extensive, international portfolio of retail and hospitality projects....Read More
WRNS Studio named Top Firm in Architect Magazine’s 2018 Architect 50! WRNS Studio was named Top Firm in Architect magazine’s 2018 Architect 50! This is the second time we’ve been recognized with the #1 spot in this national ranking of firms...Read More
Malama Aina and Ho’oponopono: Reflecting on Hawai’i’s History to Look Forward This year marks the 125th anniversary of the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. A recent event in Honolulu commemorating this anniversary was attended by thousands of people, marching from the...Read More
Summer Reading List With summer in full swing, we again share our book recommendations for the architecturally-inclined.Read More
WRNS Studio’s New Associates on Leadership, Studio Culture, and What’s Next Our new Associates share their thoughts on leadership and what makes WRNS an incredible place to work.Read More
Tim Morshead Named Partner: A Conversation on Design-Forward Practice When WRNS Studio promotes new partners, we look five, ten, fifteen years into the future and ask who will be at the helm, carrying our legacy of site-sensitive, sustainable design...Read More
Lilian Asperin Named Partner: A Conversation on Inspiration and Equity in Architecture Reflecting WRNS Studio's commitment to effect meaningful change within our communities, Lilian Asperin has been named partner. Lilian approaches architecture with wide eyes, curiosity, and a healthy dose of discomfort,...Read More
WRNS Studio Looks Forward with 18 Promotions WRNS Studio has named three partners, three senior associates, and twelve associates to support our tremendous growth. The promotions mark a new chapter of leadership at WRNS Studio as we...Read More
Learning from Alaska: Sustainability and the Conservation Movement, Part Two It was critical to get visitors thinking about what they’d seen and experienced, as the stakes were high for Alaska in 1974 and supportive voices needed...Read More
Learning from Alaska: Sustainability and the Conservation Movement, Part One wil·der·ness noun /ˈwildərnəs/ (1) a tract or region uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings (2) an area essentially undisturbed by human activity together with its naturally developed life community ——————————————————...Read More
Meet WRNS Studio’s New Associates Our new Associates share their thoughts on leadership and what makes WRNS an incredible place to work.Read More
WRNS Studio’s Growing Interiors Group is Rethinking the Status Quo Since our founding in 2005, WRNS Studio has always approached design with holistic thinking. That’s why our interiors group does things a little differently. They’re always considering ways to challenge...Read More
An International Education: Why is Travel Important for Designers? Annie Peyton will spend the next 13 months on a fellowship to develop new ways of thinking about design and urbanism in the largest and most populous continent, Asia.Read More
Architecture in the City: Resilience UX Lilian Asperin shares her journey collaborating with Zahner and others to create the Equity by Design installation for our Resilient Studio / Resilient City event.Read More
Building for the Future: The Benefits of Working Outside “Architecture” and America Tyler Stevermer shares a few takeaways about working with communities in need abroad and its impact on his day-to-day life as a designer.Read More
El Camino Behavioral Health Services Building: A New Kind of Facility Supporting Mental Health For the past 10 years, El Camino Hospital's 41-acre Mountain View campus has been undergoing a vast transformation, with new facilities that include an acute care hospital and — in...Read More
Four Newly-Licensed Women in the Studio WRNS couldn’t be prouder of our four newest licensed architects. These women have been working hard over the past few years to get their stamps.Read More
Friday Link Pack — July 1, 2016 We’re always swapping stories in the Studio — an article we read on the way into work, a book we couldn’t put down, even shows we want to see together....Read More
Friday Link Pack — July 15, 2016 We’re always swapping stories in the Studio — an article we read on the way into work, a book we couldn’t put down, even shows we want to see together....Read More
Friday Link Pack — July 29, 2016 We’re always swapping stories in the Studio — an article we read on the way into work, a book we couldn’t put down, even shows we want to see together....Read More
How to Design Inclusivity Last year, Stanford architecture students joined studio staff for a workshop on inclusive design at our San Francisco studio. It sparked a continued dialogue about how we can foster a...Read More
Jon Kershner on Licensure and What you Learn Along the Way Congratulations to Jon Kershner, our newest licensed architect! Jon sheds light on his path to licensure and shares a few study tips for folks just starting out.Read More
Raul Garduño Named Partner: A Conversation on Beauty and Sensibility Following ten years of design leadership at WRNS Studio, Raul Garduño has been named partner. If you ask Raul why he chose to be a designer, he will consider the...Read More
Recently Minted Architect, Hien Vuong Shares her Thoughts on the Licensure Process WRNS’ San Francisco studio has a newly minted Architect. Hien Vuong shares about her journey to licensure and how.Read More
Silence Music, Claude Debussy once famously remarked, is the stuff between the notes, an observation that resonates, pardon the pun, from the flawless spacing of a Billie Holiday tune to the...Read More
South Park One of the best public spaces in San Francisco is South Park. It reminds me of Place des Vosges in Paris, writ small. Linear instead of square and much less...Read More
Standard Operating Procedure: WRNS Studio New York finds its Home in an Iconic Building with a Rich History Visitors to WRNS Studio’s San Francisco headquarters find themselves in a well-situated, terra cotta-clad concrete building that began its life in 1925 as part of the Schmidt Lithograph Company complex,...Read More
Stories of the Studio Our #BehindtheStudio Instagram series explores the people of WRNS Studio and their thoughts on design. Fortunately we have no shortage of fascinating characters.Read More
Storytelling for Architects Why do architects need storytellers? This may seem random, but let’s start with one of those “Shot on the iPhone 6” posters—that one with the surfer sitting next to his...Read More
Student Health and Wellness A Conversation with John Ruffo and Emil Rodolfa Reflecting trends toward making student health and wellness integral to the college experience, the Student Health and Wellness Center at UC Davis...Read More
Top 5 A client recently had some great questions in one of their RFQs — questions we couldn't believe we hadn't considered before. They asked for our top 5 songs to listen...Read More
Translational Research The Freidenrich Center for Translational Medicine at Stanford University represents a new kind of research facility that encourages collaboration and discovery. By co-locating clinical practitioners and medical researchers under one...Read More
Two Studio Technology Leaders Newly Licensed We sat down with Jason Halaby and Brian Washburn, two of our studio’s technology leaders, to talk about their recent licensure. Tune in for study tips and their thoughts on...Read More
Walking the Talk: WRNS Studio is the First Design Firm With a Head Office in California to Earn the International Living Futures Institute’s Social Justice Label WRNS Studio Partners Melinda Rosenberg and Pauline Souza explain why earning the JUST Label became a top priority and how it reflects the WRNS Studio ethos. We celebrated with a...Read More
What We’re Reading Daniel Johnson, AIASF 2015 Emerging Professional, shares some excellent book recommendations for the architecturally-inclined.Read More
WRNS Names Eight New Associates WRNS Studio named eight associates across the firm’s San Francisco, Honolulu, and New York offices. With deep technical expertise and cutting edge sustainable design thinking, these leaders inform a diversity...Read More
WRNS Rides “I thought of that while riding my bike.” -Albert Einstein, on the theory of relativityRead More
Agents of Change: Storytelling, Branding, and Impact For professionals engaged in the built environment – architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers – the relationship between communications and business development has never been more important or more complicated....Read More
