[RAW] design is a collaboration between Rebekah and Adam Wagoner. They both graduated from Kansas State University’s College of Architecture, Planning and Design in 2009. At KSU, Adam received a Bowman Merit Award, an AIA Kansas Student Honor Award and a national AIAS/Kawneer Honorable Mention, and Rebekah received the AIA Henry Adams Medal for graduating first in class.
Upon graduation they were commissioned to design a new flagship building for the restaurant Linkhaus and formed [RAW] design in Wichita, Kansas. They took the project from schematic design through construction. From this project [RAW] worked with the same developers to renovate multiple abandoned downtown Wichita buildings into new mixed-use developments. These projects include the Zelman, the Renfro and the Lux.
At the same time [RAW] worked with Hospitals of Hope on their Clinic in a Can project, taking shipping containers, refitting them into health clinics and shipping them around the world. From this connection they were commissioned to design a master plan for ELWA, a radio station, hospital, school, church and housing complex in Monrovia, Liberia.
In 2011, [RAW] moved to Delft, Netherlands where Rebekah began a Masters of Architecture at Technical University of Delft, and Adam continued their ongoing projects and worked for Claus en Kaan Architecten in Rotterdam. At TU Delft, Rebekah focused on large hybird projects, sustainability, and in her thesis, worked to create a 2050 Master Plan for the Midwest of the USA and a transit hub for St. Louis.
In 2013 [RAW] moved to New Haven, Connecticut where Adam attened Yale’s School of Architecture and where Rebekah worked for Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects. At Yale Adam was nominated for the Feldman Prize by Peter Eisenman for his project, New Haven Basilica.
[RAW] is currently based in Denver, Colorado, but is living in Mexico City, working for Tatiana Bilbao.