Team
At WRNS Studio, leaders emerge in various, often overlapping ways—by elevating firm culture, modeling a spirit of craft and experimentation, teaching and sharing ideas, excelling in technical problem-solving or management. Some draw with a kind of poetry, beauty, and nuance that truly captures the essence and potential of a place.



- Dale Diener
- Scott Gillespie
- David Gutzler
- Jason Halaby
- Edwin Halim
- Daniel Johnson
- Tim Jonas
- Emily Jones
- Jonas Kellner
- Jon Kershner
- Alexander Key
- Edward Kim
- Natalie Kittner
- Crispin Lazarit
- Rodney Leach
- Ben Mickus
- Rochelle Nagata-Wu
- John Schlueter
- Laura Stedman
- Susanne Susheelan
- Molly Thomas
- Moses Vaughan

- Alonso Alvarado
- Alexander Arizala
- Spencer Bates
- Heloisa Botelho
- Christopher Brown
- Keith Chung
- Zoe Demple
- Jeffrey Fiftal
- Mel Figueroa
- Prairna Gupta Garg
- Chad Garrety
- Stewart Green
- Branden Harrell
- Ninoshka Henriques
- Douglas Hoffelt
- Christopher Hunter
- Milena Kim
- Kayleen Kulesza
- Ashish Kulkarni
- Kanako Lathrop
- Julie Mithun
- Chris Niewiarowski
- Jennifer Poepoe
- Celso Rojas
- Kelly Shaw
- Jeremy Shiman
- Meinani Villareal
- Christian Vollmuth
- Terra Wegner
- Kevin Wilcock
- Wesley Wong

- Haiqi Bai
- Daniel Barrio
- Emily Blemker
- Jacqueline Byrne
- Esteffany Calderon
- Alan Cartel
- Louisa Chang
- Ying Chen
- Michael Chin
- Kathleen Climo
- Meghan Cole
- Diana Cuellar
- Amanda Eagleston
- Fermin Garcia
- Niamh Gilmore
- Sarah Guyette
- Loren Heslep
- Molly Hiatt
- Leslie Hamilton Johnson
- Michael Kasow
- Katelyn Koch
- Yushu Kong
- Jasmine Kwak
- Sharon Lam
- Gary Lee
- Karen Lee
- Bella Lei
- Zhouhan Li
- Todd Liang
- Yibo Lin
- Min Lin
- Annie Liu
- Ivy Lizada
- Bella Mang
- Nayda Medina
- Danasabe Mohammed
- Novera Momo
- Eric Mondragon
- Michelle Munive
- Karan Nashine
- Max Naylor
- Melise Nekoba
- Brian Ng
- Kaitlyn Van Nyhuis
- Miguel Olvera
- Cristian Pardiño
- Kaylin Park
- Casey Payne
- Jewel Zhuo Pei
- Lauren M. Pelletier
- Michael Peterman
- Estefania Pilatti
- Daquan Proctor
- James Quick
- Liz Rhodes
- Mindy Ringhofer
- George Ruiz
- Malena Spar
- Tomas Stankiewicz
- Carissa Suryantyo
- Hanqin Tang
- Yasemin Tarhan
- Aubrey Timmons
- Maria Vasquez
- Luke Wallace
- Marc Whitley
- Nicholas Wiegardt
- Andy Wojnoonski
- Yangqi Yang
- Sunny Zhong
Where we started
WRNS Studio was established in 2005 by Jeff Warner, John Ruffo, Sam Nunes, and Bryan Shiles.

“The common thread of our work is a strong belief in the importance of design to enhance the quality of the human experience. Planning and design is a learning process for our clients and ourselves, one in which we question, explore, and develop options that allow us to see the project in different ways. We challenge assumptions of space, situating each project within its unique physical, cultural, and economic context, as well as its anticipated future. This culture of critical inquiry and our belief in using an iterative, analytical, and collaborative process to arrive at the best solution for each client has been a through-line in our work since 2005.”