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.



- Alonso Alvarado
- Dale Diener
- Prairna Gupta Garg
- David Gutzler
- Jason Halaby
- Edwin Halim
- Branden Harrell
- Ninoshka Henriques
- Jon Kershner
- Alexander Key
- Natalie Kittner
- Kayleen Kulesza
- Crispin Lazarit
- Rochelle Nagata-Wu
- John Schlueter
- Kelly Shaw
- Jeremy Shiman
- Laura Stedman
- Molly Thomas
- Moses Vaughan
- Terra Wegner
- Kevin Wilcock
- Wesley Wong

- Alexander Arizala
- Spencer Bates
- Heloisa Botelho
- Christopher Brown
- Keith Chung
- Zoe Demple
- Jeffrey Fiftal
- Mel Figueroa
- Chad Garrety
- Stewart Green
- Loren Heslep
- Douglas Hoffelt
- Christopher Hunter
- Milena Kim
- Ashish Kulkarni
- Jasmine Kwak
- Kanako Lathrop
- Eli Linger
- Bella Mang
- Julie Mithun
- Michelle Munive
- Brian Ng
- Chris Niewiarowski
- Jennifer Poepoe
- Celso Rojas
- Meinani Villareal
- Christian Vollmuth
- Luke Wallace
- Nicholas Wiegardt
- Andy Wojnoonski

- Haiqi Bai
- Daniel Barrio
- Emily Blemker
- Melanie Brignone
- Jacqueline Byrne
- Esteffany Calderon
- Alan Cartel
- Matt Carvell
- Ying Chen
- Michael Chin
- Kathleen Climo
- Meghan Cole
- Diana Cuellar
- Amanda Eagleston
- Fermin Garcia
- Anouk Guilhaume
- Sarah Guyette
- Molly Hiatt
- Leslie Hamilton Johnson
- Michael Kasow
- Nishant Khanna
- Danbie Kim
- Katelyn Koch
- Yushu Kong
- Sharon Lam
- Yaejin Lee
- Gene Lee
- Gary Lee
- Karen Lee
- Bella Lei
- Iok-ian Li
- Zhouhan Li
- Todd Liang
- Yibo Lin
- Min Lin
- Annie Liu
- Ivy Lizada
- Nayda Medina
- Danasabe Mohammed
- Novera Momo
- Eric Mondragon
- Karan Nashine
- Max Naylor
- Melise Nekoba
- Kaitlyn Van Nyhuis
- 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
- Marc Whitley
- 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.”