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
- Jeffrey Fiftal
- Prairna Gupta Garg
- David Gutzler
- Jason Halaby
- Edwin Halim
- Branden Harrell
- Ninoshka Henriques
- Jon Kershner
- Alexander Key
- Milena Kim
- Kayleen Kulesza
- Ashish Kulkarni
- Kanako Lathrop
- Crispin Lazarit
- Rochelle Nagata-Wu
- John Schlueter
- Kelly Shaw
- Jeremy Shiman
- Laura Stedman
- Moses Vaughan
- Christian Vollmuth
- Terra Wegner
- Nicholas Wiegardt
- Kevin Wilcock
- Wesley Wong
- Alexander Arizala
- Haiqi Bai
- Spencer Bates
- Lauren Bordessa
- Heloisa Botelho
- Michael Chin
- Keith Chung
- Zoe Demple
- Mel Figueroa
- Chad Garrety
- Stewart Green
- Loren Heslep
- Douglas Hoffelt
- Michael Kasow
- Jasmine Kwak
- Eli Linger
- Bella Mang
- Julie Mithun
- Michelle Munive
- Brian Ng
- Chris Niewlotti
- Estefanía Pilatti
- Jennifer Poepoe
- James Quick
- Aubrey Timmons
- Meinani Villareal
- Luke Wallace
- Andy Wojnoonski
- Daniel Barrio
- Agustina Bonaventura
- Melanie Brignone
- Jacqueline Byrne
- Esteffany Calderon
- Alan Cartel
- Ying Chen
- Kathleen Climo
- Meghan Cole
- Tom DeVore
- Amanda Eagleston
- Emilie Fish
- Fermin Garcia
- Sarah Guyette
- Christy Ho
- Nishant Khanna
- Danbie Kim
- Logan King
- Yushu Kong
- Sharon Lam
- Yaejin Lee
- Gene Lee
- Gary Lee
- Karen Lee
- Bella Lei
- Zhouhan Li
- Charlene Liang
- Todd Liang
- Yibo Lin
- Min Lin
- Annie Liu
- Ivy Lizada
- Aidan Mahony
- Nayda Medina
- Danasabe Mohammed
- Novera Momo
- Eric Mondragon
- Nicole Munson
- Karan Nashine
- Max Naylor
- Melise Nekoba
- Kaitlyn Van Nyhuis
- Cristian Pardiño
- Kaylin Park
- Jewel Zhuo Pei
- Lauren M. Pelletier
- Michael Peterman
- Daquan Proctor
- Mindy Ringhofer
- George Ruiz
- Bridget Snider
- Malena Spar
- Tomás Stankiewicz
- Carissa Suryantyo
- Hanqin Tang
- 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.”