Architecture thrives at the intersection of what a building does and how it appears. WW was founded in 1999 to speculate about this intersection and the consequences it might generate. Our work has produced a series of evolving conclusions about buildings and cities: inventions, evolutions, and definitions that cast a wide net across ideas, utilities, technologies, histories, and economies.

Of course, casting a net is never enough. Public life emerges only when that net can be grasped, only when architecture produces a legible social contract…a figure of progress.

WW's experience includes the Longsea Towers in Changsha, China; Golden House in Princeton, New Jersey; renovations to the Juilliard School's Drama Division at Lincoln Center, New York City; the X House in Northfield, Massachusetts; a community center in Lexington, Kentucky; among many other projects. We have also won or been finalists in numerous competitions: the Museum of Art + Design at San Jose State University, California (First Place); the St. Francis Arts and Athletics Building in Louisville, Kentucky (First Place); the Toronto Waterfront (Finalist); the San Diego Harborfront (Finalist); the Schiphol Airport Research and Development Complex; the Kaohsiung Popular Music and Culture Complex; and the Kaohsiung Port Terminal.