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Since its founding in 2009, WOJR has built up a multifaceted 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.

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Adam is a Senior Associate at WOJR. He has brought more than ten years of experience in architecture and urban design to WOJR since joining in 2019. In addition to practice, Adam has taught several design studios and coordinated first-year architecture at Northeastern University, and he has been a guest critic at Harvard GSD, Pratt Institute, Cornell University, MIT, and Columbia University, among other schools. Adam received an M.Arch from the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning at Cornell University where he was a Sage Fellowship recipient. Adam was also a visiting student at The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, and he holds a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, in Art History from the University of St. Thomas. Prior to joining WOJR, Adam worked in design offices in New York, Washington, DC, Boston, and Cambridge, and contributed to more than a dozen built projects in New York, Pennsylvania, and throughout New England.


William (Liam) is Founder and Principal of WOJR and Director of the Master of Architecture Program at MIT, where he is an Associate Professor. Additionally he was one of the founding members of Collective–LOK. From 2018-2021 he was the Design Director for the Samara Project at Airbnb. He is the recipient of the 2012-2013 Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture awarded by the American Academy in Rome. He was awarded the 2011 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers.

He has taught previously at University of California Berkeley as the Bernard Maybeck Fellow and was the LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at The Ohio State University. Before joining MIT, he was Assistant Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught advanced theory seminars and design studios in the graduate curriculum. At MIT, O’Brien currently holds the Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Chair and teaches design studios in the graduate and undergraduate programs.

Liam pursued his graduate studies at Harvard GSD where he was the recipient of the Department of Architecture Faculty Design Award. He has been named a Fellow by MacDowell in Peterborough, New Hampshire, and a Socrates Fellow by the Aspen Institute.
John is a Principal of WOJR. A part of the practice since 2013, John has had a deep influence on the orientation of WOJR and its body of work. In addition to being involved with WOJR, John has taught at the University of Ljubljana, Northeastern University, and Boston Architectural College, and has been a guest critic at Princeton, UPenn, MIT, and Harvard GSD, among other schools. John holds a Master in Architecture with Commendation from Harvard GSD and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, cum laude, from the University of Washington in Seattle. Prior to joining WOJR, John worked with Toyo Ito and Atelier Bow-Wow in Tokyo.