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.

Team

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.”