WOJR is an organization of architects and designers based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Working across a diverse range of scales, types, programs, and places, they are fundamentally committed to a process of uncovering the unique potential in each project to create something special, distinctive, and otherwise impossible to imagine. Ultimately, WOJR seek to carefully craft something that brings out a sense of delight and wonder, that reflects a deep understanding of a place, its daily rituals, and a care for the lives lived within.
Since its founding in 2009, WOJR has built up a multifaceted architectural competency that is able to bring together cultural, technical, and environmental knowledge into a cohesive vision, and understand how to work hand-in-hand with networks of skilled collaborators and makers from different corners of the world to bring these ideas to life.
Over the years, WOJR has garnered growing international recognition, receiving awards and accolades including the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Award and Wallpaper* Magazine Architects Directory Top 20 Young Architects in 2013, Progressive Architecture (P/A) Awards for projects in 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2023, and Architectural Record’s Record House Award 2024 for the completed House of Horns. Their work has been exhibited at the International Biennale Architettura in Venice, Italy, the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and various gallery exhibitions in the US, Europe, and elsewhere around the world.
WOJR’s projects have been featured in numerous international design publications, including Domus, GA Houses, Architectural Record, Architect Magazine, Wallpaper* Magazine, The Local Project, ThisIsPaper, Leibal, among many others. The office released its first monograph, Room for Artifacts, in 2016, and will release their second book, a volume on the House of Horns, in 2025, both published with Park Books, Zürich.
In addition to practice, WOJR maintains a consistent and close relationship with the architectural academic community. William is an Associate Professor in the MIT Department of Architecture and the Director of the Master of Architecture Program, and WOJR are frequently invited critics at architecture schools across the US. Additionally, WOJR often lectures on their work and conducts workshops at universities and design programs across the world, including at the Porto Academy in Portugal, Italy, Denmark, Iceland, Austria, Slovenia, Turkey, Armenia, the UAE, Brazil, India, China, and Thailand. WOJR also sponsors the Civitella Ranieri Prize for Architecture, a six-week residency for emerging designers in Umbria, Italy.
From 2018-2021, WOJR also closely collaborated with the Samara project at Airbnb, with William taking on the role of Design Director, intensively researching and prototyping new models of housing and construction that can address the contemporary issues of affordability, availability, density, and quality in the North American housing market.